An executive joins Company A where he’s excited to leverage his experience to make a huge impact at an important inflection point in the company’s trajectory and his own career. Meanwhile, the CEO at Company B seeks to up level her team by hiring an executive with perfect experience relative to the current and future
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Daily Rituals
The practice of daily rituals has been coming up a lot lately. My clients are either looking to implement them or, at a minimum, recognizing that something’s missing from their routines. Between all the productivity, longevity and beauty experts on social media, there are so many things I’m being told will lead to transformation of one
One Smart Greek Leadership Proverb
For obvious reasons, back when I was in the restaurant business, the proverb “the fish stinks from the head” was an effective leadership development metaphor chefs could relate to. Seems it’s likely to have come from the 1st century Greek philosopher Plutarch who wrote “the responsibility belongs to the rulers, and the fault is
The Trouble with Growth Capital
An entrepreneur gets the itch, writes a business plan, finds seed capital and becomes a founder. She launches the business. People love it. The business grows. She expands the team. The team needs things. The founder has no more friendly doors to knock upon. She goes into a huge and uncomfortable learning curve to
Five Dangers of Tacit Approval
My partners and I had a rule that we did our best to live by; “the first one to recognize insanity has a duty to stop it”. This might have meant pressing pause on an argument that wasn’t heading anywhere productive or tapping out the other when one of us was too [insert adjective] to
6 Reasons to Empower Directors
(and 6 ways to set them up for success)
I was just speaking with a growth company CEO I admire who spent the last year filling the gaps in his executive team. He’s just about there and the team is sinking into a more resonant feeling of homeostasis — as he said “I can feel the company smoothly
A Heartfelt Note to Business Leaders
(and a two-step process to get you out of the suck hole)
I feel for you and your teams these days. Between the ever-present domestic economic and world geopolitical uncertainty, the scarcity of good capital, and the tight labor market making it hard to attract and retain great talent, it’s a tough business landscape right
Your Company’s Leadership Development Program Starts Tomorrow
Fifty bucks, Amazon Prime, Some Takeout and an Intention is All You Need
My client’s company is experiencing significant growth and the management team is being pushed into new challenges. While everybody’s massively committed to the mission, vision and principles, and the culture is thriving, the team’s lack of experience at this level of the game is beginning
When to Support Our People and When It’s Time for a Change
A quick word: After telling a friend that one of my 2024 goals is to have greater impact, she dared me to write and share an article weekly. Even though I published a book a couple of years ago and love writing, it’s still not super comfortable for me to put myself out there. So I accepted
4 Elements of Heart-Centered Leadership (and why they matter, especially now)
As someone who calls himself a heart-centered leader, clients sometimes ask me what exactly it means to be one. Just mentioning it can bring a suspicious smirk. The truth is that bringing “heart space” into business isn’t all that ethereal a concept. Although some are quick to dismiss the principle, drawing an arbitrary line between two seemingly