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Designer to CEO: What 12 Years Taught Me About Leadership

Personal Growth

Revisiting Formal Feedback Sessions with Leadership

Agency Leadership

Start With Being

Personal Growth

Insights from Danny Meyer's "Setting the Table"

Agency Leadership

What I Took Away from My First Men's Retreat

Personal Growth

Reflecting Through Books: Balancing Real-Time Decisions with Long-Term Thinking

Personal Growth

On My Mind This Father's Day

Personal Growth

Flags Don't Fix Things

Agency Leadership

Barrel 19 Letter

Agency Leadership

Learning from Danny Meyer: Turning Over the Rocks in Client Work

Agency Leadership

What a Beeping Smoke Detector Taught Me About the Power of Doing

Personal Growth

Changing Daycares & The Quiet Reason Customers Walk Away

Personal Growth

Identity Trap

Agency Leadership

Pursue Excellence, Success Will Follow

Personal Growth

Finding vs. Creating Joy in the Mundane

Personal Growth

An Open Feedback Session Inspired by the 20 Habits in "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" by Marshall Goldsmith

Company Culture

Optimizing the Current Site, But the Brand Has Moved On

E-Commerce

Racing My Second HYROX

Personal Growth

Self-Perception & A Reminder On Perspective

Personal Growth

The Unexpected Returns of Showing Up Fully

Agency Leadership

Expo West 2024—That's a Wrap

Agency Leadership

Leadership, Endurance, and the Team Behind Every Effort

Personal Growth

The Power of Repetition—In Parenting & Leadership

Agency Leadership

Agency Conversations—The Long-Term Impact of Short-Term Decisions

Agency Leadership

Quarterly Rituals & Learnings from Q1 Town Hall

Agency Leadership

A Lingering Injury & Moving Past Percieved Limitations

Fitness & Wellness

Entering Client Challenges with Calm and an Open Mind

Agency Leadership

Embracing Unarguable Statements

Agency Leadership

Insights from Our CPG Dinner at NRF

E-Commerce

Sharing My Third Year In Review

Year In Review

2024 In Review

Year In Review

Working On My 2024 In Review

Personal Growth

Building Trust With Clients Through Accountability

Agency Leadership

A Weekend in the ICU & A Reminder to Slow Down

Personal Growth

Breaking Down the Last 10 Deals: Learning from Wins & Losses

Agency Leadership

My First Desk & Reflections On Personal Growth

Personal Growth

Takeaways from an 18-Month Sales Cycle

Agency Leadership

Tailoring Brand Messaging to Reach Customers

E-Commerce

Reflections from My First Marathon

Personal Growth

A CRO Mindset to Commerce Care

Agency Leadership

Running Our Own Race

Agency Leadership

The Rituals Driving Communication at Barrel

Company Culture

Friday Emails: Keeping the Team Aligned with Real-Time Updates

Agency Leadership

Balancing Real Experience with Training for New Hires

Agency Leadership

Gratitude As A Mindset

Personal Growth

Taking Our Quarterly Debriefs Agency-Wide

Agency Leadership

Diary of a CEO & The Art of Good Conversation

Personal Growth

On the Road to My First Marathon

Fitness & Wellness

Building Culture with Tuesday Meetup

Agency Leadership

The Cost of Moving Fast Without A Plan

Agency Leadership

Creating Transformative Change Through Small Actions

Agency Leadership

A Framework for Building Strategy

Agency Leadership

Ramit Sethi's 'Rich Life' & the Power of Dr. Benjamin Hardy's 1-Page Reports

Agency Leadership

The 3 Leadership Traps from "Hope Is Not A Method"

Agency Leadership

Different Paths for Two Beauty Brands Facing Falling Conversion & Sales

E-Commerce

End of An Era—Barrel Partners Book Club

Agency Leadership

BL&T No. 200: H1 2024 Barrel Update

Agency Leadership

BL&T No. 199: Going Deeper with Generative Questions

Personal Growth

BL&T No. 198: Shopify Editions, Sales, & Culture

Agency Leadership

BL&T No. 197: Leading Our Weekly Pulse Meeting for the First Time

Agency Leadership

BL&T No. 196: A Reflection on Resilience

Personal Growth

BL&T No. 195: HYROX & Starting A New Chapter As CEO

Personal Growth

BL&T No. 194: Universal Principles for Effective Landing Pages

E-Commerce

BL&T No. 193: Hope Is Not A Strategy

Agency Leadership

My Cuyana "Customer" Journey: The Missed Opportunity of Gifters

E-Commerce

BL&T No. 192: Revisiting Focus & Priorities: Consolidating Newsletters

Updates

BL&T No. 191: Taking Steps Away from Hourly Engagements

Agency Leadership

ChargeX 2024 Thoughts & Takeaways

E-Commerce

BL&T No. 190: Should this be a meeting?

Agency Leadership

The Endless Paths to Purchase in CPG

E-Commerce

BL&T No. 189: Weighing Upfront Investments in Potential Client Engagements

Agency Leadership

Navigating Headless E-Commerce: When Is It Worth It?

E-Commerce

BL&T No. 188: Training Is Not A Silver Bullet

Agency Leadership

I'm a Ghost to Magic Spoon: Ideas for Omnichannel Engagement

E-Commerce

BL&T No. 187: The Importance of Capturing Vision for Delegation (& Dan Sullivan's 'Impact Filter')

Agency Leadership