Thoughts on building great teams, delivering results and becoming successful
Many students believe that with clarity, clear thinking, and good data, every CEO should be able to make strong, quick, and sensible decisions at any given moment. That is harder than many people think. Teaching the real complexity of CEO-level decisions comes from putting the students into the CEOs shoes. At least for a little … Read more
Think of the last time you had a really strong argument with someone. A real one. Not a polite disagreement. An emotionally burning fight. Raised voices. Maybe even shouting. Picture the sitution in your head. Precisely. Feel the emotion, the tension, the anger. Now imagine: In the next moment you say something. And your counterpart … Read more
When projects fail, we usually blame the usual suspects. timelines budgets technology requirements It feels comforting. Those things are tangible. They show up in PowerPoint. They can be escalated. What we hesitate to confront is the team. Not because the team did not work hard, but because the team dynamics quietly undermined everything else. The … Read more
Most people think leadership is a skill someone learns from books or job titles. A promotion comes, a new role comes, and suddenly the expectation is to lead. But leadership does not start with the title. It starts much earlier, in the moments where people naturally decide to follow someone. During my project leadership classes … Read more
If you don’t know where you are going, no route will take you there. (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, 1865) Without defining what is to be achieved, efforts can’t be coordinated and success becomes impossible, both for individuals and for organisations. As one of the most influential managers in Silicon Valley and the 1997 Time … Read more