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 for others, it’s up to all on the ascendant leg of the K to look out for those on the descendent. Not (just) out of […]
Leadership
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 we learn, and I alluded to this previously when discussing how leaders who are at ease with their leadership and values can adapt fairly quickly […]
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 is. But I’m absolutely sure that this is a choice we can make as we build businesses. From his insightful book, Zero to One – […]
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 black and white. Whether it’s creating organisational structures, or dealing with performance issues, or promotions, or creating comp plans – the lack of a black […]
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. But although growth is seductive, without scale, it ends up destructive. That’s because the growth that we tend to focus on is top line. Usually […]