Hey I'm Chiedo, 👋
I'm motivated by challenges, learning, relationships, and winning.
I've got to be aligned and excited about the mission, the vision, and the brand.
And it's got to be good for humanity.
Selling snake oil? 👎 Selling vegetables? 👍
Moving fast ⚡️, being unusually organized 🗂️, and generating energy 🔋
- Time with family
- Exercise (But the kind you do in your thirties)
- Cooking
- Hosting refugee dinners and welcoming refugees to Harrisonburg with friends from church
- Watching musicals and choreography, Anime (Naruto, My Hero Academia, etc.), Marvel (less recently), Star Trek, and Star Wars
- Studying and discussing tech, startups, innovation, history, finance, economics, governments, philosophy, and business.
- Advising, ideating, launching, and investing in startups
- Org charts answer the question "who do I report to" but cross-functional squads answer the question "who is on my team"
- Meetings should be deeply engaging and if they are not they should have been an async
- It's better to be clear and uncertain than to be unclear
- If the team isn't aligned on what the most important goal is, the team isn't functioning like a team
- One person is the final decision maker (after consulting relevant parties) and who that person is needs to be clear
- The whole person first
- Being hands-off / high trust by default
- Having strong opinions that are weakly held
- Morpheus to the people who report to me, not Neo
- Maintaining a high tempo (schedule the follow up meeting tomorrow not next week)
- Reducing scope
- Shipping usable progress often
- Holding peers accountable
- Writing things down (shared context and learning!)
- Built to Last by James Collins
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer
- Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter
- The Modern Firm by John Roberts
- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
- Team Topologies by Manuel Pais
- The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren
- Making Work Visible by Dominica DeGrandis
- Agile estimating and planning by Mike Cohn
- Shape Up by Ryan Singer
- Marketing Strategy by Reforge
- The Sales Learning Curve by Mark Leslie and Charles A. Holloway
- Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller
- $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi
- Growth Series by Reforge
- Growth Marketing by Reforge
- Growth Leadership by Reforge
- Avanced Growth Strategy by Reforge
- Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis
- Retention and Engagement by Reforge
- Experimentation and Testing by Reforge
- Product-Led Growth by Reforge
- Traction by Gabriel Weinberg
- Marketing Technology by Reforge
- The Growth Handbook by Intercom
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
- MOVE by Sangram Vajre
- Onboarding Matters by Donna Webber
- Finding Product/Market Fit by Reforge
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- User Insights for Product Decisions by Reforge
- The Customer driven playbook by Travis Lowdermilk
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
- Monetizing Innovation by Georg Tacke Madhavan Ramanujam
- Rocket Fuel by Gino Wikcman
- The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni