On Conscious Leadership
Conscious leadership is all about one thing: a black line. Let me explain. In The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, authors Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Warner Klemp ask…
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Developing Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is a crucial leadership skill. You want to make the best possible decisions for your company, and that requires not just knowledge of external factors, but also of your…
Why Self-Awareness Is Crucial
In my day-to-day work, I help ambitious leaders build better companies. In practice, this often means helping them and their team to improve their management and strategy skills. If you…
“Do we really need a strategy?”
Some years ago, I had a conversation with my then-manager (who was also the company founder) about the company strategy. “I really don’t think we need one”, he said. “Things…
Better Decisions With A Decision Journal
Leaders and managers produce decisions more than anything else. So it stands to reason that you want to hone your decision making skills. The best way to do so is…
Inertia and entropy in business
Running a business is hard. To understand what’s going on and make effective decisions, you have to be able to wear many different hats, and take into account many different…
Strategy is more than a plan
In one of my very first essays, I wrote that some companies opt out of developing a strategy for a variety of reasons. But it might surprise you to know…
When founders get stuck
Talking to videogame company founders over the last few months, I feel like I’ve stumbled on a common theme. Put simply, these founders have become the victim of their own…
Solving issues, the easy way
Does this sound familiar? Your company has a handful of issues that seem to impossible to solve. They keep cropping up in meetings, and when they do, an endless discussion…
Create clarity by defining your core processes
As your company grows, it becomes more and more important to document and structure parts of it. Focussing your efforts and doing things in a predictable, repeatable way makes you…