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Reflections on the Art of Being Human at Work.

The Great Reboot When we move fastly and furiously into the loops and twists of the entrepreneurial journey, we can lose ourselves in the ride if we’re not careful. All too often, the choice to board the roller coaster is made from a place of drive or need that isn’t entirely aligned with our truest self.
Leading & Growing Through the Seasons Being a technical founder poses particular challenges to scaling in your role as CEO. Scaling a company is challenging. Leading through that scale as your role as CEO is also constantly changing adds to the waves of change that a leader must move through on the arc of growth.
Taking Into Account Accountability is also an inside job. How are you, an employee, taking full responsibility for yourself as it relates to this work? Being accountable means being ready to show up for the work that’s in front of us and be a contributor to the fulfillment of the goal of the whole.
What Is the Best Way To Lead the Person in Front of You? Adaptive leadership asks you to be keen enough to be with who is in front of you, in any situation, and be able to connect relationally and with what matters. That requires a different skillset than a fixed leadership style. 
Strong Back, Open Heart: 6 In-depth Courses to Reboot Your Leadership (and Life) How we work is as important as what we are doing. And, at the end of the day, we need to get things done, to execute--to work. Tending to the tensions caused by our humanity makes work happen more efficiently.
Driving Forward vs. Fully Acknowledging What’s Here Having a clear vision is one thing. Leading a discussion and conversation about the vision and what that means for each function is another. How does one lead a dialog about important issues? How do we lean in to disagreements? How do we decide to move forward as a team? 
Where The Flowers Grow Shared leadership is counter to the image of the leader at the top of the pyramid, and more in line with servant leadership. At deeper layers, this way of leading has a quality of inclusion and equity.
A Skill Set for Life Leadership isn’t constrained to leaders in organizations. Leadership is for people who are leading as life partners, leading as parents, leading in their communities, and in anything outside the confines of a job or career.
How Are You Leading? Stepping back and letting other folks lead brings up a lot of things for those in the lead role in an organization. Specifically, it can bring up lots of feelings around trust, decision-making, and fear of letting go.

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