A Simple How-To Guide to Writing Your 2020 Intentions Flying on airplanes has recently become a great time to reflect for me. I do some of my best writing and thinking on the plane. I’m disconnected from the
Ask for What You Really Want In my bathroom at home, I have a framed poster that reads “Ask for 100% of what you want 100% of the time.” I actually have a lot of inspirational
The 5 Most Common Mistakes That New Tech Leads Make In his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There [https://amzn.to/2YkdVmz], Marshall Goldsmith talks about a common, big mistake that he sees his coaching clients
5 Key Investments That Every Tech Lead Should Make What separates effective tech leads from everyone else? For the past few months, in preparation for a new course for tech leads [https://coleadership.com/experiences/foundations-of-effective-tech-leadership], my co-founder Jean
Self-Sacrifice Is Not How You Grow as a Leader “You're the sh*t umbrella for your team.” The first time I was introduced to a tech lead role at my first startup, I remember being told that
The Surprising Power of Visualization on Our Ability to Lead “The more I become conscious of the effect on me, the more I wonder why this super successful thing in the sports world is not more commonly applied to all these other situations.”
Bethanye Blount on Helping People be the Most Badass Versions of Themselves "I think the idea of looking at somebody as on a journey and that you can help them on that journey makes a lot more sense. To me, that's thinking about helping people be more badass."
Camille Fournier on Prioritizing Emotional Energy “Figure out what's important for you to be feeling about.”
Reflecting on Our First Year of Co Leadership “What are some of your favorite peak moments from the last year?” I shared a moment that stood out from one of our workshops. My co-founder Jean and I had
Bridge Communication Gaps to Make Better Tradeoffs One by one, engineers in the room started to voice some of the tensions they faced at work. One engineer shared that he found it frustrating whenever goals changed mid-way
How to Reprogram Yourself to a Better Version of You I used to have trouble being in the spotlight, sharing my accomplishments with my friends or with my co-workers. For years, I wouldn't really ever talk about the
How to Build a Feedback Loop for Your Own Growth In 2012, Professor Neal Roese made a powerful discovery in the science of happiness and motivation. He surveyed hundreds of people across the United States and asked them to describe,
What a Free Hugs Adventure Taught Me About Leadership The mom pushing her stroller down Chestnut Street stopped to give me and the person I was with a hug. “Thanks,” she said. “I really needed that.” And then she
Retrospectives: The Most Important Meeting You Can Run for Your Team At the end of every month, we run a retrospective. It's the single most important recurring conversation that we have. We always leave them feeling re-energized and re-motivated
Understand Your WHY to Boost Your Happiness and Motivation What makes some people excited to go to work every day while others can't wait for the work day to end? What determines whether you find deep fulfillment
How to Have More Impactful Communication with Two Key Skills I blinked away the tears. Team morale was crumbling. Co-workers, many I considered friends, were leaving the company. I was at a meeting with senior leaders, and I had just
The Magic of Co-Leadership: Unlock a More Powerful Way to Work I was halfway up the four-story vertical ropes course, when my course partner at the leadership retreat decided she couldn't continue any further. We agreed she would energetically
How to Invest in the Infrastructure of Your Relationships This important lesson about effective leadership took me ten years to learn: Investing in the infrastructure of your relationships is just as important as investing in the infrastructure of your
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How to Leverage Your Teammates' Strengths More I sighed at the important email. It'd been sitting in my inbox for over two weeks, and a reply was long overdue. I felt some frustration, as I
Build Trust in Moments, Not in Years One of the most meaningful experiences in my career was a conversation where I turned an engineer from an intimidating adversary into a supportive ally. I'd been working
