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�������� The short and sweet: the book Sara and I have been working on since 2020 is officially available for preorder and launching on April 8, 2025! You can learn more about it, request a sample chapter, and preorder the book on our site!

We now live in a time when billionaires are stating that companies need more ���masculine energy.��� Diversity, inclusion, and equity are removed from an entire country���s vocabulary. Books are removed from libraries because they don���t match someone���s...

So much conflict and tension of work comes back to three things that I have struggled with in my own career as a founder and executive and that I now regularly help my clients overcome.

I call these the big three, and so many tough conversations, problems, interpersonal conflicts and tensions, and team dysfunctions come back to these.

���� ��������������������������������������������: It���s in our nature to constantly think about and question why someone else might be doing something. Worse, ...

It���s easy to get frustrated when your team is making decisions you don���t agree with. They���re picking the wrong tools, the wrong level of complexity, or decide to do that rewrite despite the unpredictable effort and likely ballooning scope.

First thing to accept is that different folks have different preferences, different mental models in how they make decisions, and a different set of experiences that has led them to make these decisions. If it���s your goal that your team make the exact...

���What are you going to do once I���ve joined?��� is what a candidate asked me when I hired a VP Engineering. As CTO, I couldn���t give my team the attention they needed, being many timezones away from most of them.

That question worried me, because I didn���t have a good answer. I said so in the interview, but kept ruminating on it. What does a CTO really do?

That���s the same question many of my clients are facing as the company grows around them, and the needs of the business and your team...

When I ask my team for feedback, should I allow them to submit anonymously? Especially when asking for potentially critical feedback or hoping you���ll find out how teams and projects are doing, this is a tricky question.

But might people prefer anomymous feedback? It���s usually grounded in the company���s culture or in how the person receiving the feedback has responded in the past, if they have responded at all.

���� Company culture: Companies say they want transparency and candor, but ther...

More than six years ago, I was looking for a new role. Little did I know that what I ended up finding was a friend and business partner with whom I���ve been having a regular standing one-on-one from day one of us working together.

Fast forward to the end of 2024, and that standing appointment and the quality time it���s given us, have lasted through us working together as CEO and CTO, through several acquisitions, us starting our own business, and now being close to publishing a book that we s...

Over the last couple of years, my focus has been shrinking. Our collective focus has been shrinking. There���s the pandemic that altered our lives in ways we hadn���t thought possible. There���s climate change, changing our lives in ways we don���t yet know. And then there���s social media, our phones, and all the apps constantly vying for what little attention we have.

In his 2022 book ���Stolen Focus,��� Johann Hari lays out a great number of arguments on how all the odds are stacked against ...

This is a summary from a recent Twitter thread I shared (which does explain the short paragraphs, I hope).

If there���s one thing I see most companies we work with struggle at is that most communication still happens in meetings. As they push towards a more remote culture, meetings are still the place to disseminate information and make decisions. Why is that?

But let���s be frank here: most organizations struggle with this, whether they���re pushing towards remote (or already claim to be), or...

When you���re in the midst of starting a business, while also writing a book, like me and my business partner Sara currently are with The Intentional Organization, your mind can feel all over the place. It���s constantly overwhelmed by not knowing what to do and where to go next. There���s just so much to do, and you get a pick of the litter of what you might want to do next. Meanwhile I have handfuls of client to attend to, staying in touch with them, making sure I keep track of our conversatio...

Today, my business partner and former CEO, Sara Hicks, and myself, are thrilled to introduce our new venture: The Intentional Organization, a coaching practice and a forthcoming book.

The intentional organization is about building companies, teams, entire organisations based on three principles: inclusion, clarity, and learning. These have been the pillars of the business we���ve been building over the last decade. They���re the pillars of our coaching p...