Death by a thousand papercuts often happens when we neglect particular issues, expecting us to have the opportunity to handle them "seriously" eventually. That neglect can be disastrous. Stop digging!
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Understanding the natural thought patterns of your CEO will help you communicate effectively and create trust rather than lose it. One such aspect is the "anecdote machine" thinking. With few data points, extrapolation roams free, and it often misses. More in this week's episode!
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The ingenious use of paper towels to unlock business value and how that connects to your team's autonomy and agency. Are people sitting on their hands waiting to be told what to do, looking directly at obvious solutions and not implementing them? A lesson from a bar in Rome.
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Just because it comes to you so easily, it doesn't mean you should allow that behavior to guide your thinking. Yes, coming up with reasons why something won't work is easy and might feel like you're demonstrating your smarts. Still, in this week's episode, I discuss flipping that thinking around.
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Single stepping might be a good way to debug some gnarly code, but it won't cut it as a leadership practice. Without learning how to step back and look at things at a grander scale, you're bound to think too "small." More in this week's episode.
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You ask for something simple and then get a deer in the headlights look from the other person. The lack of autonomy and agency can hit us everywhere, mcdonald's, restaurants, and your org! More in this week's episode.
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Effective leadership enables rapid growth, adjusted to each person's current situation and abilities. You can unlock dramatic success by aligning around simple yet impactful coaching habits. More about that in this week's episode!
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The mirrors in our apartment got me thinking about affordances and deliberate organizational experience design. Are you making the right things accessible?
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Risks are unavoidable in our day-to-day work. Yet many of us need some "calibration" of our treatment of risks. Many tech-oriented people have a risk appetite that differs from the company's, resulting in missed opportunities and a slower pace. Let's help you address that in this week's episode.
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For more than a week, I kept saying the exact same thing at the same caffé in Rome, and we got a different drink almost every time. Communication is weird. Words are vague. Realizing that is essential to become an effective leader. More in this week's episode.
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Fear has two opposite ways of harming how you lead—do you freeze or do you roll over? Either way, fear-driven leadership is not really leadership. You can short-circuit fear's control of your behavior with these three steps.
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When we see things with a fresh set of eyes, we can notice many things others around us have gotten used to. Be it if you're standing in front of cheeses you've never heard of before in an Italian supermarket or when you joined a new team. How can we maximize learning to ensure we improve our weak spots and double down on our strengths?
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If your internal conversations are all about your struggles and obstacles, and you always skip over the actual progress you've made, you will inevitably generate self-inflicted burnout sooner or later. Don't tell yourself you're on a hamster wheel… if you ain't!
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You should be thinking ahead, but don't confuse that with useless busywork that doesn't actually matter. We do it because we're anxious, because we want to do *something*, or because we wrongly mistake that for leadership. But if there's no diff, it doesn't matter—or even worse.
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We moved to Rome and are essentially starting the house from scratch. It's tough, but also liberating. When we're only limiting ourselves to incremental thinking, we might get stuck in a local maximum. Without liberating ourselves from current constraints, making substantial progress can be nearly impossible.
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🎶 If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad 🎶 Actually, it can.
Leaders who wrongly think their first priority is to ensure their team is always happy, fine, and dandy create nurseries, not impact powerhouses. Do you know what's important and how to be a good leader without constantly trying to please your team? More in this week's episode.
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There are things that you can just put aside and not think about them until you have to. And then there are areas where you can save a lot of effort by ensuring regular maintenance. That's the difference between having to overwhelm your org with the equivalent of WD40 in a rush, and having the ability to handle a situation you knew would come with an already laid out plan. More in this week's episode!
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You definitely shouldn't be too hard on yourself, and any particular failure shouldn't rattle you too much. Yet, it is dangerous to get so accustomed to failures and cutting yourself slack that you never start taking action. Rather than keep pushing that diet off by a week, how about committing to some baby steps in the right direction right now? More in this week's episode.
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Whenever you're hiring someone, you realize that titles don't mean the same for everyone. It's not enough to have a reference call where they say someone was a "good senior engineer" and be satisfied, nor can you just interview for a "CTO" position without understanding what CTO even means in the company. This week's episode is about ensuring you get the right people in the right positions.
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Somewhat annoyingly, my usual reply when someone tells me they have a certain issue is to ask for real examples. You'd be surprised to see how often people are overly critical of themselves, or obsess over issues long resolved. In today's podcast episode, we talk about learning to shortcircuit a lot of internal criticism, so you only bother with what actually matters.
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