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Why Your Company Outgrew You (and What to Do About It)
Ben Horowitz coined the terms “wartime CEO” and “peacetime CEO” in The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Wartime means threat, speed, survival. Peacetime means growth, stability, systems. Most leadership advice focuses on how to survive war. Nobody talks about what happens when you win. Here’s what I see in my coaching practice, over and over:…
Story Sabotage: The Story You Tell Yourself Is Killing Your Company
The most dangerous story in your company isn’t the one your competitors are telling the market. It’s the one you’re telling yourself. I had two conversations this week. Different industries. Different stages. Different problems. Same disease. The first was a leader who’s built something real. Revenue is growing. The team is expanding. Clients want more.…
Spirals of Performance
When it comes to performance, you’re either on the way up or on the way down. As leaders, we soak up the energy of all our people, so it is even harder to stay on the way up.
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What Game are you Playing?
If you need to know something, you really need to know what game you’re playing. You have to know because they have different objectives. You’ll allocate resources differently.
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Do Your People FSO?
You know the best piece of advice I can give you? Hire people around you who can FSO. It’s THE critical leadership competency. Yet, no one ever talks about it. What’s FSO, you ask? Hire leaders who figure $h!t Out (FSO)! Then give them the roadmap. Give them the rules of the game. Plan the…
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Stop Doing. Start Thinking.
You know a problem I see in you?
Too much doing. Not enough thinking.
You’re “so busy” taking action that you don’t think about the work you’re doing.
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The Best Investments
The best investments are the ones you make in yourself. Yesterday, I hosted the ProvenChaos Leadership Summit. I spent all day with C-level leaders navigating their companies forward in uncertain times. I’m really lucky. The people I hang out with serve as models of what aligned, high-performance looks like. I learned so much! I’ve always…
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A Consumer’s Power
Leading a winning company has never been harder. Forget about employees and supply chains and Covid. It’s even more basic. It’s about the consumer. You used to hold all the power through aggregating all the information. Now, it’s the consumer that has control. Think about it: If you wanted to know about a new car,…
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Magic Sprinkle Cookies
Briggs, my five-year-old, loves going to the local grocery store with me. In fact; he jumps at the opportunity. Weird, right? Yeah. But there’s a secret. The bakery gives away sprinkle cookies to kids. Free. He loves it. Publix moves the mundane job of shopping to sheer pleasure. Talk about transforming an experience! It got…
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Your Blind Spots
On a cold March day in 1988, when I was 14, a Toyota Camry took me out on my bicycle. It remains among the scariest moments of my life. When they say, “life flashes before your eyes,” it’s true. Life really slows to a frame-by-frame basis when in a crisis. Thirty years later I can…
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