Reflections

Let’s say you’ve clarified your vision and have a great game plan. You’re excited and you feel the magnetic force that comes with knowing your big hairy audacious goal and how you’ll make it real. If you do a good job communicating your vision and you have the right people in the right places in the right bus, you might also have an energized, willing-to-perform team around. But life happens and it’s easy to lose focus, execute on urgencies and noise, and find reasons for why

The ability to make good decisions is one of the key factors that will lead to your company's success and your success as a manager. Wait… it’s not only about the quality of decisions, but also about how fast you make decisions based on insufficient data. “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70 percent of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90 percent, in most cases you’re probably being slow.” Jeff Bezos There are multiple decision-maki

You are not your job. You are not your body. You are not your personality. You are not your beliefs. You are not your thoughts. You are not your act. If I could grant a magic power to the world, that would be the ability to clearly hear our inner voices and graciously juggle with them in a way that propels us forward instead of keeping us stuck. Working with myself and with my clients made me more aware of how important it is to become aware and to separate ourselves from our

First and foremost, I’m not a behavior change role model (yet) and I think changing behaviors is one of the most difficult things we’ll ever do. So no silver bullet available. I’ve read a lot of theory about behaviors, and I’m still work in progress, aspiring to convert more of the theoretical knowledge into action. Last year I’ve learned 3 important lessons on habits – theoretically I knew them but I’ve finally seen them at work in my life – the change in identity makes a l

Starting to write this post, after the ‘what is it that I want to share about this’ thought, I asked myself ‘why should my leaders-readers care’ and then I moved to the next thought… ‘are we even aware as leaders how it feels not to feel listened to’? I fell in love a bit with this question and now I’m reeaaaaally curious about perspectives on it. A penny for your thoughts… In order to be motivated to change a behavior it’s helpful to empathize with the impact of our behavi

This is one of my favorite stories and it conveys the idea that success is a personal thing and you can enjoy it faster if you know your values, you are deeply connected with what makes you fulfilled and you pay the price to go against what society defines as success. “A successful businessman on vacation was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The businessman complim

One idea that stayed with me about feedback is that the most valuable feedback one can get is by looking around and noticing what’s not right. What I mean by that... We tend to get frustrated with people in our teams for not delivering on time, while we don’t always keep our commitments, which in turn makes it more difficult to keep our people accountable. This doesn't necessary need to be the loop, but hopefully you get my point and get curious about it. Just a simple sequ

You’re doing it when your people do their jobs at the end of the working day, because 50%+ of their time is spent in meetings (formal or all sort of frequent, informal interruptions) As leaders we keep talking about our people's well being, especially nowadays. In some companies well-being surveys and mental health programs are being implemented. On top of standard routines, we create some more ‘let’s connect’ virtual opportunities. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good we ask, it’

Don’t know about you, but I looove a good story. When it comes to stories, we all have some foundational ones based on how we made sense of key moments in our lives and what we learned by noticing the world around us. Some of the stories we tell ourselves are uplifting, others extremely disempowering. They're loaded with emotion, we rehearse them in our head, reinforce them through the inner negative chatter and they transform themselves into ‘universal truths’ that limit o

“When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail!” Or how sometimes our greatest gifts stand in the way of achieving success or stepping up as leaders As a leader, my passion and talent for problem solving undoubtedly helped me drive for success at the beginning of my career, when the results of the company I was in charge of were depending on me directly being part of solutions. We were a small team and I had an instrumental role in shaping plans, pushing projects