Insights

An exploration of leadership and performance

Insights

3 Strategies to Create a High Performing Culture

In the early days of scaling a company, “more” feels like the right answer. Set bigger targets, drive harder toward them, and expect more from the team. It usually works—up to a point. But as teams scale the expectation of constant acceleration starts to strain the...

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How AI Can Help Leaders Become Better Thinkers

You're likely already using AI to help you perform various tasks. But have you considered how your use of AI may be shaping your brain? Your interactions with AI shape your thinking in ways that go far beyond your immediate challenge and goals–with each AI interaction...

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What Type of Goal Setter are You?

Picture your goals as they stand today. Are you drawn to those quick, achievable wins you can knock out this week? Or do you naturally gravitate toward bigger visions stretching years into the future? Each of us has a comfort zone in how we set goals, and it usually...

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When Feedback Backfires

Summary: The virtues of feedback – such as improved decision making, work quality, accountability, and continuous improvement – are widely and frequently discussed. However, poorly delivered feedback can backfire, potentially causing lasting and significant damage. ...

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The Highest ROI Leadership Skill? Experiments.

Summary: While every leadership journey is unique, shaped by an individual’s own strengths, challenges, habits, and context, some leadership skills are remarkably relevant across a wide range of professional and personal contexts.  The skill of designing and running...

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Why We Prefer OKRs to KPIs

Summary: Much of a leader’s effectiveness rests on their ability to collaboratively set direction for their team. Two popular goal setting frameworks – Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – are widely adopted throughout the...

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Expect To Go Backwards Before Going Forward

Expect to go backwards and you will go forward more quickly – a mindset to accelerate your growth and development. Imagine you have golfed using one grip for your entire life, and now you learn, after a lesson with a fancy golf pro, that to get to the next level you...

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Why Your Leadership Growth Shouldn’t Be a Solo Endeavor

When it comes to improving our leadership skill, most of us go about creating and executing our performance plans and goals in secret. This turns out to be suboptimal because leadership is inherently social, and cannot be developed in isolation. Involving others in...

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How AI Can Help Leaders Become Better Thinkers

You're likely already using AI to help you perform various tasks. But have you considered how your use of AI may be shaping your brain? Your interactions with AI shape your thinking in ways that go far beyond your immediate challenge and goals–with each AI interaction...

read more

What Type of Goal Setter are You?

Picture your goals as they stand today. Are you drawn to those quick, achievable wins you can knock out this week? Or do you naturally gravitate toward bigger visions stretching years into the future? Each of us has a comfort zone in how we set goals, and it usually...

read more

When Feedback Backfires

Summary: The virtues of feedback – such as improved decision making, work quality, accountability, and continuous improvement – are widely and frequently discussed. However, poorly delivered feedback can backfire, potentially causing lasting and significant damage. ...

read more

The Highest ROI Leadership Skill? Experiments.

Summary: While every leadership journey is unique, shaped by an individual’s own strengths, challenges, habits, and context, some leadership skills are remarkably relevant across a wide range of professional and personal contexts.  The skill of designing and running...

read more

Why We Prefer OKRs to KPIs

Summary: Much of a leader’s effectiveness rests on their ability to collaboratively set direction for their team. Two popular goal setting frameworks – Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – are widely adopted throughout the...

read more

Expect To Go Backwards Before Going Forward

Expect to go backwards and you will go forward more quickly – a mindset to accelerate your growth and development. Imagine you have golfed using one grip for your entire life, and now you learn, after a lesson with a fancy golf pro, that to get to the next level you...

read more