Reflections

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

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

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’

“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