Thoughts on Leadership

Build Back Better means Build Back Kinder

Build back better means build back kinder. With a special responsibility if you lead a company. With talk of a K-shaped recovery, where fortunes ascend for some while they plummet…
Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

“Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood” I love that quote from Josh Waitzkin’s ‘The Art of Learning‘. He was applying it to how we display mastery as…
Let’s hope all businesses come to this

Let’s hope all businesses come to this

“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.” I’m not as sure as Thiel…
Greyness is the challenge of leadership

Greyness is the challenge of leadership

One of the most consistent challenges leaders grapple with as they grow (which is always!) is ambiguity. The continual search for certainty, to define things in a way that is…
Should I scale or should I grow?

Should I scale or should I grow?

Business has an obsession with growth. And usually unlimited growth. A target is set, and we always laud people for beating it. Sometimes with an accelerator for beating it significantly.…

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