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Reflections on the Art of Being Human at Work.

Decisions, Decisions: A Model for Making Quality Decisions & Managing Perception Decisions are relational challenges as well as logical ones. They impact our trust in direction and in each other. They establish accountability to one another. And thus, becoming adept at making decisions as a team is an investment in lowering the cost of communication between individuals and groups.
Annual Planning Guide: A Time to Realign, Not Just Reset Annual planning is essential, but to get to the end goal, it is necessary to remember the human element along the way. Regular check-ins, complex discussions, analytical conversations, and understanding human limits are vital.
How to Build a Strong Personal Mission Statement for Better Leadership As a leader, when you move without a clear center, your actions lose coherence. You respond to each demand as it comes, guided more by circumstance than by deeper wisdom.…
Strategic Business Planning for Founders: How to Create Plans That Actually Work A business plan isn’t about creating a rigid, detailed blueprint that never changes. Instead, we encourage setting clear, adaptable frameworks that guide founders through uncertainty, enabling responsive and meaningful actions. …
Leading Through Change: Holding Onto Your Values in a Shifting World Technology will come and go, and that means tough decisions. However, as a leader, those decisions never have to stray from your culture or values.
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.
The Right Questions What is the job of the CEO? It’s a role that, when played well, shifts and scales as the company grows and develops. 
Personal Records The metric that matters in life is your personal best. Being a better version of yourself than you were yesterday, or last month, or than you were in the last five years is growth.
Bigger Than a Bread Box For those with a fix-it tendency, consider asking: Who or what are you fixing? What fuels the fixing? What are you feeling when you’re fixing? What might the fixing be trying to fix about how you're feeling?
At the Heart of It All What kind of company do you want to work for? Whether you answer that question consciously, intentionally or not, you’re creating that company every day.

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