Thinking
Ideas, perspectives and real conversations.
- 01Coaching3 min read
All good coaching should come to an end
Open-ended coaching is the industry's most comfortable arrangement and its least defensible one. If your coach can't tell you what finished looks like, you are paying for company.
- 02Leading at the top2 min read
Does it feel lonely at the top?
Loneliness at the top isn't about a lack of company, it's that nobody witnesses the judgement you exercise, so nobody tells you whether it was sound.
- 03Confidence1 min read
Imposter syndrome is the wrong diagnosis for most senior leaders
Most senior leaders don't feel like frauds, they feel the evidence hasn't landed yet. This is why the imposter label sends you the wrong way.
- 04Decision-making4 min read
My instinct is good. That's the problem.
Experience makes a leader's instinct faster, not wiser. This article shares what happened when I didn't give the answer to a client’s question, and why the silence did the real work.
- 05Ambition5 min read
Success didn't settle it. The bigger goal won't either.
When success stops feeling like enough, the problem isn't ambition or purpose - it's that you asked an outcome to answer a question about yourself.
- 06Transition4 min read
Why your promotion didn't convince you
More evidence doesn't close the gap between what you've achieved and what you believe about yourself. The belief gap is what your mind does with evidence about you.
- 07Leading change2 min read
You can't lead people through something you're pretending you've finished
Senior leaders are expected to look settled about change that is happening to them too, but performed certainty costs more credibility than it buys.
- 08Transition5 min read
You were appointed, but you don’t think you have the job yet.
You were appointed months ago and still check decisions you're allowed to make alone. That gap between authority and authorisation has a name and a cost.