Insights on leadership, technology, and human-centered strategy, originally shared on LinkedIn and expanded for deeper exploration.
With our new CEO going on leave, our partners proposed the crazy kind of non hierarchical experiment I love. Why don’t we (including me) report to each other in a Round Robin. Everyone’s accountable to someone and no one’s the boss. Bring it on!
Yes, another list of 4 things. But that’s how the writing played out on this one.
How a lifetime of experiences is helping me accept and move forward from a career setback. #career #setbacks #resilience #leadership
Conversations about using LLMs and building thought leadership (with overlaps), SPIN selling, lead gen, and evolving an industry vertical. All in North Carolina sunshine with a cooling breeze and among people I aspire to know as friends. Not shabby @MarkRickmeier and @claudiarichman #Competition #collaboration
Four actions that make your business more agile, temper false exuberance in good times, and reduce the human cost of responding in down times #BusinessStrategy, #CashManagement, #ProfitManagement, #EmployeeEngagement
A journey through career setback towards acceptance. With roadkill, REM, rivers, and cows. #career #setbacks #resilience #leadership
Integrity is a commitment to behave according to one’s values and commitments. If those values are not entirely about self then certainty - unwavering belief that the way you behave will best achieve that impact for others - is a trap.
Was advised that tight economic times is not the moment to focus on sustainable strategy. I accept that as valid but it highlights the work there is to do framing the topic. Sustainability and impact can inform decisions even when resources are constrained. That’s the point.
At this moment, I have nothing to gain by doing anything inauthentic to my self. What I have to gain is a question that may take a bit to answer.
Why does this responsibility fall to business leaders as opposed to, say, the technologists …these aren’t technical questions — they’re ethical, qualitative ones. They are exactly the kinds of problems that business leaders — guided by relevant subject matter experts — are charged with answering.
We have two spotlight situations that afford us an opportunity to role model grace for others: how we temper success and how we cope with setbacks.
People have been appreciating my candor and expressed vulnerability in my transition out of the CEO role. More a comment on leadership culture than a reflection of me.