So, what’s the point of having a vision when you’re grappling with a crisis and focused on surviving day to day? It’s difficult to think about long-term goals when you have serious short-term…
Leadership
When you’ve put everything into building a business, letting go can be very difficult. This is very familiar to my podcast guest Ana Chaud. Ana was the co-founder and former CEO of Garden…
I first met Kevin Adler in 2016 about 18 months after he founded Miracle Messages. At that time he had $600 in the bank and Miracle Messages was on the brink of ceasing…
Am I Doing Enough? This is a question I first explored in a blog a couple of years ago. The context was avoiding the ‘not good enough’ mindset which creeps in when we…
Oyster is founded on the core principle that leadership is no accident. Leadership is about declaring a future others commit to achieve. The leader’s role is to create a vision of the future…
Are you ready for what lies ahead? At times like these, the natural reaction is to focus on the day or week ahead. When we are not sure what the future looks like,…
Over the first 15 years of my Intel career, I read many leadership books and attended most of Intel’s leadership classes. I was keen to learn. Despite all this effort, I remained puzzled…
The Coronavirus crisis has dramatically increased the pace of change. In some instances driving undesirable change and in others creating some incredible breakthroughs. I am hearing about the many projects under way to…
When times get hard, our natural response is to work harder. That’s fine for a short period of time, but over the long term, the risk of burnout increases. This leads to fatigue,…
It is hard to envision a positive outcome from a crisis. When I look back at many of the terrible times and events of the past, I notice they weren’t all bad. Many…