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Has your company outgrown your leaders?
Is your company in a growth spurt, or is it stuck in a rut? A tough question to answer for a company experiencing rapid change. If the...
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Max Wenneker
- Mar 20
- 1 min
Beware the "honeymoon bounce" of a Performance Improvement Plan
Right after you deliver a Performance Improvement Plan, an interesting phenomenon often occurs. For the period of approximately 2-3 weeks...
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Max Wenneker
- Mar 14
- 6 min
The Productivity Trap: Why More Employees Don't Equal More Output (And What To Do About It)
In the early stages of a startup, employees can be very effective while operating independently from others on the team. This is the case...
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Max Wenneker
- Mar 13
- 1 min
What is the difference between a 1-on-1 and a professional development check-in?
1-on-1 What's the difference between a 1-on-1 and a professional development check-in? A 1-on-1 is something that you do once a week with...
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Max Wenneker
- Mar 11
- 2 min
3 questions to ask in every 1-on-1 with your direct reports
Question 1: “What's on your mind?” This question opens up the floor to your direct report to talk through what they're thinking about and...
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Max Wenneker
- Jan 19
- 15 min
[Management 101 Podcast] How to hire great talent
Link to original podcast episode [Transcript from original podcast episode edited for clarity] Welcome back to Management 101 with me,...
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Max Wenneker
- Dec 27, 2022
- 11 min
The unintended consequences of a leader’s poor time management
Time management has been on my mind a lot lately. I have observed many founders and company leaders who, particularly in the face of...
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Max Wenneker
- Dec 19, 2022
- 16 min
[Management 101 Podcast] How to run effective meetings
Link to original podcast episode [Transcript from original podcast episode edited for clarity] Hello and welcome to podcast episode...
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Max Wenneker
- Dec 16, 2022
- 16 min
[Management 101 Podcast] How to have effective 1-on-1s
Link to original podcast episode [Transcript from original podcast episode edited for clarity] Hello, and welcome to another edition of...
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Max Wenneker
- Dec 14, 2022
- 14 min
[Management 101 Podcast] How to be a good first-time manager
Link to original podcast episode [Edited Transcript from Podcast] This podcast is going to be focused on how to be a better manager and...
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Max Wenneker
- Nov 10, 2022
- 7 min
How one asshole can kill a whole company’s culture
Recently I had a conversation with a startup leader who told me that it took her a long time to realize just how connected her job...
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Max Wenneker
- Oct 14, 2022
- 7 min
How to fix your bad org structure (Part 2)
In the last post I discussed why most companies’ org structures don’t work well. The main reasons are that 1) they result in a disconnect...
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Max Wenneker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 6 min
Why most org structures suck (Part 1)
You’re working on a big project for your company and need to get people from other parts of the company involved. Maybe you’re a customer...
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Max Wenneker
- Sep 21, 2022
- 6 min
Transplant rejection: how to keep great leaders from becoming bad hires
As companies grow they naturally need more executives to manage a growing number of employees and an increasingly complex business. A...
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Max Wenneker
- Sep 12, 2022
- 6 min
How hacking can actually lead to better product outcomes
A company with strong engineering and product teams is a force to be reckoned with. That company can more easily outrun its competition...
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Max Wenneker
- Sep 6, 2022
- 6 min
Urgent vs. important
When a company is growing fast and is relatively lean, it is incredibly common to have a bunch of unexpected problems arise on a daily...
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Max Wenneker
- Aug 29, 2022
- 5 min
Another 2 things companies look for in candidates that don’t actually matter
In the last post I discussed the idea that pedigree and “rock star”-ness are not great indicators of potential in candidates. In this...
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Max Wenneker
- Aug 25, 2022
- 4 min
2 things that companies look for in candidates that don’t actually matter
In my last post I discussed some of the things that I believe are extremely important to include in a hiring process to separate good...
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Max Wenneker
- Aug 22, 2022
- 6 min
3 keys to great hiring
Someone once told me that the difference between bad hiring and good hiring is actually pretty small. They said that the best hiring...
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Max Wenneker
- Aug 17, 2022
- 9 min
3 traits that make amazing founders but bad leaders
Founders are drawn to their profession of starting companies because they have a problem they want to solve and a vision for how to solve...
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