Posts in Leadership
Are You at Your Level of Incompetence?

What is worse than realizing you put the wrong person in a key seat? Realizing that you yourself have reached a level of incompetence. This is referred to as Conscious incompetence: In this stage, you realize that you do not know how to do something or did it wrong. You begin to feel discomfort because you acknowledged your mistakes or shortcomings to yourself.

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The Perspective of the Scale-up CEO

Beyond their qualities, skills, and character traits, here are a few demographics: they tend to be younger (most sources place the average between the late thirties and early forties), they have a technology background, and they were not in business during the last recession in 2007/2008.

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How to Only Make Good Decisions

What if we encounter decision fatigue with our doctor, with the admissions officer handling our application, or when fundraising for a startup? What if we observe it with ourselves? After a day of many decisions, we are less patient when asked to make another, we take less time to consider the impact, and the decision turns out to be not as good as those made earlier in the day.

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4 Tips to Fearlessly Achieve Your Goals

A key individual that the Chiefs would have never won the 2020 Super Bowl without? It’s not Patrick Mahomes! That man is Brett Veach, the General Manager for the Chiefs. He is an excellent case study of effective leadership.

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Don’t Go Where the Wind Blows You

To be deliberate means to think or talk something through carefully — it also means weighted and measured, the pace and art of careful decision-making. If you choose deliberately, you make a very conscious, intentional, well-thought-through choice.

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The Value of Reliability

We also value people that ‘just work.' Margot Anderson puts it this way: “We place great importance on people … who are able to deliver consistently good results time after time and who can be depended upon to deliver on commitments and promises. Fundamentally they make life … easier, more enjoyable and more rewarding.”

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Always Trust Your Instruments

Great Sales Leaders understand this. They embrace all available technology, align digital and human interactions, trust their instrument and the process, and use the deliberate human touch to their advantage.

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The Corporate Soldier versus The Entrepreneur

It is a comfortable environment to navigate. It does not require original thinking, and there is always a justification. And CYA and righteousness are built in. Everything within the corporate system seems to make ‘sense’.

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What Is Your Leadership Style?

The best leaders do two things: they can knowingly and intently apply different styles based on what the situation calls for; while staying true to themselves and reliable to those around them.

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