Andy Tryba

I've been CEO of 20 companies and have managed dozens of VP/GMs. Here are 4 of the most common mistakes I see when these senior leaders set annual goals:

@david_perell Great summary and ton of fun walking a bunch of those steps w you….

To all the golfers in the house, you have to visit Bandon Dunes. In five days, I walked more than 100,000 steps and played nine rounds of golf. Some thoughts on the experience: - Years ago, a friend told me that the best music festivals are the hardest ones to get to because only the die-hards will make the trek. So it is with golf resorts. Bandon is tough to get to, which makes it a place for people who love golf. If you don’t love golf, don’t go. But it’s paradise to those who do. - What makes Bandon extraordinary isn’t the quality of its single best course. There are plenty of resorts where the best course is better, like Pebble Beach and Whistling Straits. What’s unique about Bandon is that there are five outstanding courses, two par-3 courses, and an 18-hole putting course — all within a five minute drive of each other. Each course has its own personality. Such sense and abundant variety makes Bandon elite. - Save time for the Par 3 courses. I recommend playing them in the afternoon, after your first 18-hole round, if you don’t feel like playing 36 that day. Bring beers. Make bets. Talk trash. - Pack for every weather condition: We got pouring rain, 35 mph winds, a dense marine layer, and shorts and T-Shirt sunshine, all within a four day span. - One of Bandon’s delights is the way it’s designed for all-out golfers. For example, there’s a golf shoe dryer in every room to prevent blisters for people who are playing 36 holes (sometimes in the rain). - Bandon made a conscious decision to prioritize golf at all costs, such as building the clubhouse away from the coastline so the best beach views would come from the golf course instead of restaurants and hotel rooms. There’s no infinity pool and no luxury spa. It’s about golf, golf, and golf. - If I have one complaint about Bandon, it’s the speed of dinner service. The entrees took more than an hour to arrive every night (in fairness, the demand spikes are a huge logistical challenge because everybody wants to eat right after the sun goes down). - Bandon has the best golf merchandise game I know, outside of The Masters. Don’t buy everything you need at the first course though. Every course has their own logo, and also their own strengths / weaknesses on the merch front. - Go with a group. I was in a group of 24 guys. That’s too many. 8-12 is ideal. Big enough that you can keep playing with new people, but small enough to get to know everybody. - If you do a buddies scramble, do it at Sheep’s Ranch, a course without bunkers where you can tee it high and let it fly on just about every hole. - If there’s a course to get a caddie, it’s Old MacDonald. It’s a study in optimal illusions. You’ll need help navigating all the blind shots and topsy-turvy green complexes that play tricks on your depth perception. Without a caddie, your eyes will betray you and you’ll find yourself frustrated. - The quality of your caddie will majorly influence your experience. If you don’t like yours, ask for a new one. If you do like yours, work with them for the entirely of your stay. I had about four different caddies during my time there. Two were good. One was terrible. One was just fine. And I made sure to get the phone numbers of the good ones so I can work with the in the future. - The pace of play is quick: When you get to the first tee, the marshall will put a GPS tracker on your golf bag right before you tee off to track your position on the course. And if you’re behind by a few minutes, you bet somebody will tell you to pick up the pace. - Bandon Trails was the surprise highlight because it’s the course that looks the least like the other courses on the property because it’s tree-lined and built away from the water. But it’s a solid Coore-Crenshaw design where just about every hole is noteworthy. If you ask the caddies which course they like best, most of them will give the nod to Trails.

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100% agree…. Furthermore - there will a AI disrupted enterprise software and AI enhanced. Investors need a strong point of view of each category.

As a CEO - the end of year is always a critical time to have your senior leaders spend time reflecting on what worked and didn’t - and setting the vision for the upcoming year. Here are the 2 long form docs I always have my teams write (and I assess their capabilities with):

If you can teach your kids 1 thing - make it confidence…

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This coaching is applicable for all managers

Amazing visual…

In 2 pages @JeffBezos teaches you more about high standards than you'll learn from reading 2 books. The art of summarising that which resists summary is critical to achieving greatness. The world will forget you, except what you've written down, then what you've written down well

Great example of understanding something at the atomic level - then making decisions on it. All managers have something to learn from this answer.

@rogerdickey The CC theory isn’t actually the bad part. But you need to teach kids how to linearly organize their work on the paper first - since so much of it relies on independent steps later added together. And most kids write all over the paper and can never bring it back together.

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@VijarKohli Very interesting thesis…

@andytryba I don't think time zones will exist in the future. Even daylight savings time will eventually go away. As more people come online, everyone will sync to one global time zone. Long answer to say the exact moment lol

After 46 years - I finally did the math. I was actually born a day earlier due to timezones. Curious debate - should birthdays be celebrated based on the calendar day or the exact moment we entered the world (considering where we were born)?

@AdamSinger Heh heh - thanks Adam.

@andytryba haha the day is fine, also happy birthday Andy!

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7). Don’t try to force them to accomplish - they will do the goals that they’re passionate about. This exercise is more about them learning how to set annual goals than tiger-dad execution management. Best if they drive accomplishment on their own.

6). Post on the fridge - and keep the goals visible throughout the year. Use family dinners to ask about how they are going. Celebrate any incremental accomplishment.

Teaching your kids to set annual goals is a life skill that will change their lives forever. I’ve tried various methods over the years and continually failed. Until I finally cracked the code. Here is what I painfully learned: