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    Only Once

    onlyonceblog.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010

    A CEO and executive writes on running companies, covering boards, management teams, quitting jobs, and a Colorado COVID-19 response team.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters link it for the advice on quitting a job and for the Colorado COVID-19 innovation response series, called concise and worth reading.

    Stats for nerds
    15HN people shared it
    15linked in comments
    90story points
    Apr 2020last shared
    2015people per year2020

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      What Does a CEO Do Anyway?
      1 person · 35 points · first shared 2011 · 23 comments on HN
    2. 2
      How to Quit Your Job
      2 people · 34 points · first shared 2013 · 61 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Why CEOs Shouldn’t Mess with Engineers
      2 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
    4. 4
      What Makes an Awesome Board Member
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Pret a Manager
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      The Best Laid Plans, Part III
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2012 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      The Three Functions of a Management Team
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Building the Company vs Building the Business
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      (company) board benchmarking survey
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Selling a Line of Business
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2010 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • avipApr 2020

      https://www.onlyonceblog.com/2020/04/state-of-colorado-covid-19-innovation-response-team-part-iii-gearing-up-days-4-6

      >Seems like it’s neither strategic nor a stockpile

      (The whole sequence makes a concise and well worth read)

    • cballardDec 2015

      Did you give them a ton of advance warning when you left?

      http://www.onlyonceblog.com/2013/09/how-to-quit-your-job

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