David KeyesLeadershipI spent my first two years as a founder running on the assumption that speed was the whole game. More clients, more hires, more everything, faster. The data I found this year confirms what I only started believing after it nearly cost me something real: the founders sprinting hardest aren’t the ones still standing at the finish line.
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David KeyesTechnology“Modern” used to describe how a site looked. This year the word finally caught up to what actually matters: how fast it loads, who can use it, and whether the decisions behind it were any good.
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David KeyesStrategyEvery agency pitches a “brand sprint” now. Most of them mean a five-day countdown to a deck, not five days of real strategic work. Here’s the sequence I actually run, and the exact point in that sequence where I’ve watched other shops quietly cut the corner nobody in the room notices until the brand stops holding up.
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