The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.