Unpolished thoughts on awareness, patience, and the kind of leadership that starts with a quiet mind.
Compare two quarters honestly. Same hours, same intent, roughly the same quality of work. One produced almost nothing and the other went well enough that people asked what you had…
Read article →Three hires, three different roles, possibly three different recruiters. Each one impressive in the process, each one gone or going within a year, and afterwards you can list the w…
Read article →Watch the moment someone brings you a problem. Not the conversation — the half second before it starts.…
Read article →The version that worries people most is the one where nothing has gone wrong.…
Read article →There is something you are quietly good at that has no training history.…
Read article →It is rarely the same words. It is the same shape.…
Read article →De term wordt zo slordig gebruikt dat hij toe is aan een opknapbeurt.…
Read article →Take two people through the same MBA, the same graduate scheme, the same eight years at the same firm under the same managers.…
Read article →This is a question people ask quietly. It gets searched far more often than it gets said out loud in a professional setting, and the answers available online are mostly either dism…
Read article →The financial year exists for reporting. It is a good convention for comparing periods and a poor one for planning human effort, and most people never separate the two.…
Read article →Nobody decides to lead like somebody else. It happens by absorption.…
Read article →Almost every founder I work with has done something before. A programme, a retreat, an executive course, a year of coaching.…
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