Axiomatic Consulting

Startups are hard! You’re chasing more funding, more customers, and more momentum, all the while chasing an ever-encroaching runway end date and mounting worries left and right. We dig that and can't get enough, really. It's kind of a problem if we're being honest. So we can help more startups, we're launching a new, one-time product offering: Deep Dive. Three hours to dig into your business' technology, product, and team to uncover new opportunities, red flags, warning signs, speed bumps and unrealized priorities. We've delivered a few of these already, and are excited to offer this to more startups. https://lnkd.in/g6V3fbNa

“I am not busy. You might think I’m busy, but I’m not." I started almost every managerial relationship with some version of this, because I'd never want my team to think I'm "busy" or that they need to weigh the importance of something being worth bothering me about. Being explicit about this helps break down communication barriers and helps you avoid blind spots and surprises later. Things will bubble and fester before they cross the threshold for the team to break through your real or perceived "busy" to bring you in. I usually closed this initial chat with: “I want the people above me to think I’m busy, but not you. For you, I’m not busy, and you’re not bothering me.” More in this week's Axiom over at Axiomatic Consulting: https://lnkd.in/eQsDrX-B (Aside: This goes for you, too! You might think you'll be bothering me, but you're not. I spend my days refreshing feeds and inboxes just waiting for you to reach out. You got nothing to lose. Send that email.)

If you’re covering status updates in your 1:1 you’re wasting everybody’s time. 1:1s are for people, not projects and status - that stuff’s the literal definition of a meeting that could have been an email. And you have so much more valuable stuff to do! Like connect to another human being. More in this week’s Axiom over Axiomatic Consulting : https://lnkd.in/gvZVHvpd

New brand, who dis? Working with new friends Five Four, we've launched a new website, a new logo, and a new url all at once. Peep https://getaxiomatic.com to see it all in the wild, and learn more about our crusade to create better software engineering cultures and business outcomes. More from our founder in the comments ...

Almost all business problems are actually communication problems. And most communication problems revolve around unstated expectations.

Excited to talk to folks about how the sausage gets made.

A key point in this: "Deadlines are agreements on how different organizations and departments work with one another. You agree to hit deadlines, and they agree not to bother you about it until the deadline becomes questionable."