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Conscious Leadership

Underneath strategy, there is psychology. Healthy people lead healthy companies. Courageous people do courageous things. Transformational cultures create transformational products. These posts center on practicing courageous, conscious, vulnerable leadership, and how hard it can be to be a heart-driven leader in this world.

When to avoid the corner office

Conscious Leadership

When to avoid the corner office

Should the ambitious should aspire to positions of leadership?

The intelligence of care

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The intelligence of care

Where there is deep care, there is profound intelligence.

On cathedral building

Personal Reflections

On cathedral building

Building cathedrals in a short-term world.

Personal Reflections

Think weeks

Protecting space for thinking

On attention spans

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On attention spans

What medium do we want to become most like?

The need for context

The need for context

It is context that's missing from our online spaces

On a bias for inaction

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On a bias for inaction

Exploring the power of doing less

The courageous middle

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The courageous middle

What games have I unwittingly entered whose expectations and rules I am now following?

The costs of people-pleasing leadership

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The costs of people-pleasing leadership

“Managing change is about upsetting people only at a rate that they can tolerate.”

The flight to quality

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The flight to quality

What the flight to quality means for us

The challenge of original thinking

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The challenge of original thinking

The more we consume advice as entertainment, the harder it is to hear our own voice.

Your team is managing you

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Your team is managing you

It’s less that leaders are managing their employees and more that their employees have figured out how to manage their leader.

Optimizations vs. goals

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Optimizations vs. goals

"Everyone is sharpening their sword for the battle that's never going to come.”

Can AI usher in the 4-day workweek?

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Can AI usher in the 4-day workweek?

Are AI-generated productivity gains enough to mainstream a 4-day workweek?

On Strategic Planning

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On Strategic Planning

“All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

On Defining Reality

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On Defining Reality

At the heart of every company, there is a story about what’s important and what’s true.

The power of asymmetrical risk

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The power of asymmetrical risk

We’re often told this story that the greater the risk, the greater the reward, but that misguides us to think that the levers holding risk and reward are always equally balanced.

Process vs. Authority

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Process vs. Authority

Before building lots of processes, build clear authorities, then determine what process is needed.

Redefining Intelligence

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Redefining Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, and how intelligence is a relationship between us and the world.

The Four Acts of Company Building

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The Four Acts of Company Building

There are often four acts to building a company.

New evidence on the 4-day workweek

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New evidence on the 4-day workweek

92% of companies who piloted the 4-day workweek decided to keep it long-term

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On Remote Work

Is remote work is a successful model for early-stage companies looking to build ambitious things?

Invisible Forces

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Invisible Forces

The importance of being reminded of the invisible forces in our lives

The art of quitting

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The art of quitting

Leaders need the ability to quit things they’ve previously committed to.

On fast-food work cultures

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On fast-food work cultures

Despite its many benefits, remote work will lead to the fast-food-ification of company culture.