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Impostor syndrome is just a checkpoint
Dear leader and reader, I'm a bit anxious today. It's my ego that wants to be protected. It's applying the breaks. It's telling me "It's OK, you don't need to move forward." But I do want
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Distilled bites of practical wisdom. Read, rethink, and act so you become a different successful leader. With Pro-Tips you might get more fulfilment out of your leadership practice, tip by tip.
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How awesome leaders hack their tools
Today I bring you a poem I wished I had written myself. It's author, Jeremy Hope, was an influential leader and co-founder of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT)—a global knowledge-sharing members organisation that helps visionary leaders and courageous companies achieve performance the right way. Don'
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Hack one of your tools today
The same way you can use a hammer to both tear down and build up things, you can choose to defy traditional ways of using managerial tools and practices. Take Goal Setting for instance. From a command and control perspective... you can set goals for teams and reinforce a "
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Field Guide for Awesome Leaders
Introducing Field Guide for Awesome Leaders: a collection of tactical protocols for different successful leaders like you. Download below the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and let me know what you think:
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Let's work on what you deem important
Last week I nudged you to take your time to craft your OKRs, so you could make the most of this acronym. Also, I promised you a way to hack dogma. In other words, I promised you wouldn't need to read the "manual" in order to
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OKRs are frustrating but not mandatory
Leadsticks is my new leadership zine and your new issue is out now. Read the digital edition here. Subscribe here. Join the print edition waitlist here. We don't like to waste our time and we want great results indeed. That's why we plug & play OKRs
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6 Ways to Avoid Mentoring Fright
To mentor someone can be daunting, more so when your mentee happens to be an experienced and laureate leader. Multiply your number of mentees by 15, add 45 minutes as your timebox, and consider the ever existing temptation of people multitasking during remote meetings, and you'll get "
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I Asked Ed Wisniowski to Boost Your Resilience Today!
"Resilience is NOT about heroic postures or phony displays of machismo; it is about suffering failure, humiliation, and disappointment and having the strength to persist." Today we have resilience pro-tips from a leader I've learned a ton from. Meet Ed Wisniowski, a software development veteran and
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Agile Is Not For Every Leader
I don't believe Agile is dead. Here's why: There are companies out there, who thrive because they have embraced it. It's not because they wrote down stickies on a wall faster than the competition. It's because they have got it. They understood
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Do This to Stay Sharp
Write a little something on a regular basis. It doesn't need to be good. It doesn't need to be published. It's for you, to clear your head, to refine your voice, to let go. Do that and you'll start to notice positive
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What Andy Brown Recommends You to Read
"Connect, Multipliers, Productivity Ninja, and Who Moved My Cheese..." Andy Brown is an award-winning advisor. He provides coaching to leaders in people-based businesses, enabling them to make better decisions more quickly. I asked Andy for 4 books he can specifically recommend to you, dear reader and awesome leader.
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This Reminds Me to Stay Sharp
The sword is the mind When the mind is right, the sword is right. When the mind is not right, the sword is also not right. He who wishes to study the sword, must first study his mind. This poem, written by Toranosuke Shimada, is one of the few I