What Matters

I've been reflecting on what matters, lessons learned, practices to experiment with and ideas worth exploring.

Cultures worth belonging to

belonging matters culture culture matters cultureshift leadership Nov 30, 2022

Expectations have shifted. Leaders are expected to lead Cultures worth belonging to. Boards are asking questions. Public and media scrutiny is intensifying. Team members are voting with their feet.

Leaders, is your Culture worth belonging to?

Hi. Its me. I'm the problem. Its me.

culture culture matters culture stack cultureshift leading culture Nov 07, 2022

What's keeping you up at Midnight or 3am?

One thing that keeps me up at night is how many leaders are under-estimating the impact of their Culture on their Strategy.

As you carve out and tweak your Strategy for the next 15 months and beyond, how are you thinking about the impact of your Culture on the creation and execution of your Strategy?

Play Taylor Swift's Anti-hero on Spotify here.

When you're the only one in the room

balance matters belonging matters culture matters culture stack leading culture leading women Mar 08, 2022

When you’re the only one in the room, something happens.

Yes, you relax sometimes and forget for a while, especially when you know and like the others in the room.

Still.

You’re the only one in the room.

It’s hard to be unaffected.

It’s important not to be ineffective or to waste the opportunity.

It’s exhausting bearing the weight of representation and expectation.

Some topics pass by or are easy to contribute to. Others are fraught. Your question, or your answer, may be weighted or seen as representative, because you’re the only one in the room.

You may...