Most companies aren’t run any particular way. Contrast the default management style at most Fortune 500 companies or an average tech startup with the radical intentionality of the choices embodied in Ray Dalio’s Principles or the Valve employee handbook. Great leaders stare in the face of the extraordinary achievement they seek and ask what way of operating—from the biggest why to each critical everyday element of how—will best, over the long arc, produce this result.
How to Run a Company
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The Shape of a Year
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Pursuing a Life's Work
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Why Are We Building This Company?
Niko Canner Apr 01, 2021 7 min read -
Building a Great Professional Services Firm Inside an Enterprise
Niko Canner Nov 11, 2019 6 min read -
Will You Seize the Moment, Will You Weather the Years?
Niko Canner Oct 15, 2019 10 min read -
To Achieve a Breakthrough, Step Through the Looking Glass
Niko Canner Sep 03, 2019 4 min read -
Building a Network, One Authentic Relationship by One
Niko Canner Aug 06, 2019 7 min read -
Don’t Develop Business, Develop Clients
Niko Canner Jul 29, 2019 8 min read -
Learning from Extremes
Niko Canner Aug 23, 2018 4 min read -
Making Innovation Stick
Niko Canner Jun 28, 2018 11 min read -
Red is the Most Important Color in Management
Niko Canner Feb 28, 2018 8 min read -
Ten Principles for How to Run a Company
Niko Canner Feb 20, 2018 5 min read -
What to Do When Your People Are Leaving
Niko Canner Feb 20, 2017 10 min read -
How We Run Incandescent: Principles and Practices
Niko Canner Oct 13, 2016 8 min read -
How to Retain Talent – and How to Lose People the Right Way
Niko Canner Jun 08, 2016 5 min read -
How to Run a Company
Niko Canner Apr 19, 2015 4 min read -
The World’s Best Customer Experience Executive
Niko Canner Mar 22, 2015 4 min read -
My Unlikeliest Favorite Business Book
Niko Canner Jan 18, 2015 8 min read -
Macro-Miniatures
Niko Canner Aug 08, 2014 2 min read