The Art of Not Taking Things Personally

Why other people’s emotions might not be about you — and your emotions might not be about them | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 3 years ago

A Manager’s Guide to Holding Your Team Accountable

If you struggle to hold people to account, try this. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 3 years ago

Two Questions to Ask When Taking Tough Decisions

Empathy can lead to bad decisions, but there is an alternative. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

Shocking Rules Can Shape Your Company’s Culture

A practical guide to giving your company the culture shock it needs to succeed. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Scale Sales at Your Startup

The journey from one sale to one hundred starts with you. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Measure Your Professional Development

A manager’s guide to measuring the more subjective parts of the role. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

Spreadsheet Can Help You Focus on What’s Important

You know what you should be doing, but you just can’t bring yourself to actually do it. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Organise Your Leadership Team

The journey of growing a small group of founders to a company of hundreds or thousands of people is not as different as you might think. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

The Guide to Developing People

If you want to help your team improve their performance, feedback isn’t always the best way. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

The Inevitable Second Wave of a Business Crisis

Cash isn’t today’s only challenge for business leaders. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Give Your Team a Sense of Purpose

A practical insight that can help you, and your team, find meaning in your daily work. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

The Unspoken Expectations of Working at a Startup

What your team probably wishes they’d known before joining your startup. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Implement OKRs in an Early-Stage Company

Why OKRs often fail in startups — and how to use them effectively before product-market fit | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Manage Over-Assertiveness

Simple advice to get the most out of assertive and non-assertive team members. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Under-Complicate Your Product (and Save Money)

One reason engineers tend to overcomplicate, and how to please your customers at a fraction of the cost. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Resolve a Conflict When Both Sides Are Right

Four principles to solve business problems when tensions run high | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Resolve a Conflict When Both Sides Are Right

A powerful approach to nonviolent communication at your startup | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Clarify Your Long-Term Strategy

These four questions underpin business strategy — but most startups get them all wrong. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 4 years ago

How to Sell the Problem Before Selling the Solution

They say that every great business addresses a real customer need. If expressing your customer need has ever felt slippery, this is for… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Get Your Team to Want to Work Longer Hours

Here’s what actually works when it comes to getting the most out of your team. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

Early-Stage Founders Can Negotiate Their Salary

Insights on founder salaries suggest a better way of discussing compensation with the board | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

The Five Meetings Every CEO Should Lead

How the right meetings can set up your team for success — and help you step out of the day-to-day | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

The Fastest Way to Become a Thought Leader

Here’s my process to turn a blank page into powerful content for your business. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Write Like a Thought Leader

Here’s my process to turn a blank page into a powerful thought leadership piece. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Write Like a Thought Leader

Here’s my process to turn a blank page into a powerful thought leadership piece. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Train Inexperienced Managers in a Startup

The opportunity for startups to grow their own leaders has never been greater. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Remove Limiting Beliefs from Your Team

Breakthroughs in social science have uncovered small interventions that can have a long-lasting impact | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

Communication Patterns Used by Great Leaders

Whether you’re leading a meeting, a team, or a company, your ability to communicate can set you apart as a leader. The skill of bringing… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Get Investors to Read Your Updates

Do your investors read and respond to every update you send them? There are huge benefits to writing engaging updates . . . | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

A Founder’s Guide to Sales Meetings

Selling shares in your company and selling your product into businesses may sound similar, but they’re different in some very important… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Ask Your Team the Right Questions

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers”— Voltaire | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

Why Strong Founders Don’t Always Make Great CEOs

It takes great assertiveness, focus, and hustle to get a new company off the ground. If you’re an early-stage founder, you likely have… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

The Dark Side of the Founder Skillset

It takes great assertiveness, focus, and hustle to get a new company off the ground. If you’re an early-stage founder, you likely have… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

What it means to be a CEO

On the surface, it’s a simple question: what should a startup CEO actually do? But the simplest questions can be the hardest to answer. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Build a Long-Term Relationship (With Your Co-Founder)

Conflict is the last thing most of us want, but if you’re building a new company, it comes with the job. In the pressure tank of… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Sell the Problem Before Selling the Solution

They say that every great business addresses a real customer need. If expressing your customer need has ever felt slippery, this is for… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

What Not to Do When Rebuilding Your Tech

Startups often feel the need to discard the tech they’re working on and starting over. Here are some of the reasons why this happens . . … | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Apply Agile Outside Your Tech Team

Agile management isn’t just for tech teams. Here are ten techniques that any team can use to better cope with an uncertain world. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

Why Every Startup CEO Needs a Chief of Staff

A growing number of startup CEOs are hiring a Chief of Staff. Here’s why this hire might be the most important one you make this year. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

Why Great Founders Let Their Team Feel the Pressure

If you’ve ever felt like you’re being too easy on your team, here’s how and why you should let them sweat — without going too far. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

Problems That Keep Founders Up at Night

The most dangerous threats to your business are the hardest to share, and often, no one else gets the full picture until it’s too late. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

What Keeps Most Founders Up at Night

The most dangerous threats to your business are the hardest to share, and often, no one else gets the full picture until it’s too late. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Keep Your Founder Guilt in Check

Do you ever felt guilty when you’re not working on your startup? If so, you’re not alone . . . | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

The Art of Thinking Long-Term Even When Money Is Running Out

It’s easy to buy into the ‘overnight success’ story. But in reality, building a venture is a five- to seven-year endeavour. It requires… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Market Your Product Without Hiring a Marketer

Who said you need an agency to start marketing your product? Here’s how to build a tried-and-tested marketing funnel — without hiring… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Get Customer Insights Automatically

Here is a fast and effective way to create a continuous stream of customer feedback that helps you build a product they will love. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Hold Your Team Accountable

Do you wish your team took more ownership? Here’s how to get your team to the point where you trust them to get the job done without you. | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago

How to Get Better Results When Outsourcing Early-Stage Tech

Why do so many founders run into problems when outsourcing their MVP? Often fingers point to the developers, but the problem is probably… | Continue reading


@medium.dave-bailey.com | 5 years ago