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Getting Risky
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 dif...
Caffellatte
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 v...
Fear
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-circui...
Onboarding
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 ...
Not a Hamster Wheel
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-...
Thinking Too Big
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 *somethi...
Start from Scratch
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 m...
Don't Make 'Em Happy
🎶 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 dand...
Scheduled Maintenance
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 regula...
Diet… Next Week
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 c...
Vetting
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 s...
Show the Proof
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 ...
Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is sometimes a must, because not everything can be clearly decided one way or another. Nevertheless, while you might be aware of the dissonance, a...
Manufacturing Urgency
So many CEOs are worried about their team lacking "urgency" and throw that word around, without realizing how to increase productivity in a manner that's effective. To...
Mistakes Portfolio
We're all going to make a lot of mistakes, we might as well get better at maximizing the learning-per-mistake we get. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger… if you ...
Too Cozy
Everyone celebrates long-tenured team members—but what if comfort is killing your company? Let's discuss the hidden dangers of having people who’ve been in the same se...
Overcompensating
When things aren’t going smoothly, most tech leaders don’t slow down to rethink—they speed up to fix. We overcompensate. We protect the team too much, get involved in ...
Chronic Reaction
Many leaders nowadays suffer from this chronic condition. They do everything right if you only judge each single action by itself. On any given day, you can look at th...
The Notebook Test
Imagine if your private leadership notebook — the one where you wrote what you really think about your team — suddenly became public.How surprised would they be readin...
Eight Traits: Product Mastery
Product Mastery – The Tech Leader’s Force MultiplierMost tech leaders settle for “understanding the product.” But true product mastery is something else entirely. It’s...
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