Dave Bailey's Blog

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

We all need a sense of purpose in our lives, but when we can’t find one, it can...

Life throws a lot of paradoxes at you. For example, you need to work as hard as humanly possible but you also need to have a life. You need to listen to customers but you also...

Ten years ago, I learnt a critical lesson about recruiting while I was sitting on a bus.

There’s a lot of PR attached to $100M+ acquisitions, which makes them seem more common than they actually are. In reality, only a small fraction of companies ever get...

You’ve built a product or service that you plan to sell into companies. While the development team was building it, you went out and started to build relationships. After...

When I started out as an entrepreneur, marketing was an after-thought. I hung on to the idea that ‘good products market themselves’. And I learned that ideas like...

We all need a sense of purpose in our lives, but when we can’t find one, it can leave us lifeless and unmotivated. Our daily pursuit of money and respect is shaped by...

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) were designed in the context of scaling companies, such as Intel and Google. They’ve become the undisputed best practice of managing...

A lightweight approach to branding for startups-no expensive agency necessary.

In my first startup, I dreamt of building a powerful brand that would earn its place next to...