Strategic Timeframes - Balancing Long Term Focus with Short Term Actions
Leadership, management, and organizations are riddled with paradoxes. The more we recognize them the more we can be effective in…
Frameworks/Mental Models
Someone should have told us but no one did. Important frameworks every leader should know.
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How Bezos Thinks - All his Frameworks and Mental Models
In 1994 Amazon was just an idea in someone’s head, that of Jeff Bezos. Today it's a…
Linear Causality vs Circular Causality in Decision Making
The "if...then" way of thinking about cause and effect is common in business. Circular causality is often…
Using Deliberate Practice to Increase Leadership Effectiveness
Deliberate practice is one of the few proven research-backed frameworks to improve performance. But it's not used enough…
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Using the Ladder of Inference to Make Better Decisions
Decisions are heavily influenced by our existing mental models of the world. What makes it tricky is that most of…
A Framework for Year End Reviews
Doing regular reviews at midyear or yearend with ourselves are a good exercise. Frameworks can help us orient and ask…
Types of Goals - Understanding the Nuances of Effective Goals
Goals and objectives are part of modern organizational reality. They are common parlance to the point where we often take…
Paradoxes of Leadership and Management
Leading and managing can be stressful and frustrating because of inherent paradoxes built into the nature of the beast. One…
Challenges of Experts Transitioning into Leadership
A common theme in coaching engagements is that of high-performers grappling with the dynamics of their new roles. Transitions can…
Pulled by the Future vs Pushed by the Past
The framework of a “future pulling us towards it” vs a “past pushing us” can be helpful in breaking out…
Good Careers Gone Bad - Subtle but Lethal Mistakes in Mid Career
Success often carries with it the seeds of failure. Mid career is an especially dangerous time when past successes lay…
Leadership Requires Understanding Time Differently
Our habitual ways of looking at time in linear and spatial terms can unknowingly limit us when it comes to…