Last week, I posted a video of me in conversation with Kickass client Terry Lee about why he calls his company a “team” and not a “family". The majority of that video was about the hazards of using “family” to refer to our companies and why we’re so prone to use it in the first [...]
A lot of startup founders refer to their teams as “families”, especially in the early stages. They spend all of their time together, laugh together, cry together, and care for each other as human beings beyond their roles as colleagues. Just like a family, right? Not quite. I sat down to talk through the implications [...]
Can constraints make you more creative? This question is my obsession. The answer is yes–if you choose the right ones. I recently spoke to the team at Logitech in Silicon Valley about how they can use constraints to help their teams be more creative and productive. For background, Logitech is a publicly traded company with [...]
In our last post, Miriam Meima and I outlined the three unspoken challenges of women in tech — being seen, being heard, and being ourselves. We have had the opportunity to coach a number of today’s most successful women leaders. Through that work a fascinating paradox has emerged — that the path to being seen and heard is letting [...]
It’s a fallacy to believe your success at work can be separated from your success as a human being. And truly successful leaders know this. They focus on being successful on a personal level first - and everything follows from that intention. So, that said, what does it mean to be successful in this sense? [...]
