If you use it right, feedback is the most powerful lever in building your company. But most leaders are missing out on its full potential. They only give negative feedback….
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When your brain is saying, “Danger, Will Robinson”
There was a clear theme running through my conversations with clients this week. See if you can guess what it was. 👉🏻 One CEO had hired a new COO. Would…
Get out of survival mode by going “micro”
Ted, the CEO of a tech scale-up, raised almost $100 million in VC funding last year and is in high-growth mode, expanding his business across Europe and the US. When we started working…
The stealth approach to stress management
When it comes to stress, there are two kinds of people: The ‘Velcros’ and the ‘Teflons.’ ‘Velcros’ allow stress to stick to them, says Professor David Almeida, who did a…
Why “top guns” don’t get stressed
If there were a 50% chance of dying every day while building your company, would that affect your work satisfaction? Well, that was the mortality rate for fighter pilots in…
Rules that work like magic 🪄
Two heads of state were discussing important political matters. Suddenly, a man burst into the room and started shouting and banging his fist on the table. “Peter,” the resident head…
Getting better faster
I’ll never forget the feeling. Standing on stage as the audience cheered and clapped. It wasn’t Carnegie Hall but it changed my life. Here’s the story… Growing up, I dreamed…
The simple question that wipes away doubt and overwhelm
Recently, my CEO client secured $300M to scale the business. And he shared an amazing revelation: He’s been a rock star at every company where’s he worked. “You can’t succeed…
What the world’s greatest lumberjack can teach you about productivity
There once were two lumberjacks. And not just any garden-variety lumberjacks. They were known as the two best lumberjacks on earth. Both were tall and strong: 6 feet 8 inches,…
Are you the right kind of productive?
“How do I know if I’m busy enough?” a CEO client asked me. For founders scaling their business, making the shift from operator to executive is tricky. As an operator,…