Leadership

John Gatto went in search of the original business plan of the modern schooling we have today. Which led him to The principles of secondary education by Alexander James Inglis in 1918. The reading is quite dry, so here…

Years ago I was having trouble leading my team. My company was growing fast and I felt like we were losing that energy we once had. I read a bunch of management books for solutions which led me to…

I met a guy at my event today. He owns a dessert shop. He was telling me that when he first opened his place he hired his first employee and it was the first time he ever had to…

Two weeks ago I was having lunch with Daniel Weinand, one of the founders of Shopify. Though Daniel has always told me how great their work culture was. Seeing it in action was something else. I walked into a…

Improving is internal. It’s about the now. It’s about being more efficient in the way you currently operate. It’s about self-discipline and clarity of direction. Innovating is about the external. It’s about the future. It’s about being flexible and…

4 year old Alex couldn’t have raised millions of dollars with one lemonade stand. She needed to capture people’s hearts. Many people think that leadership is about titles or positions in a company but leadership is about one person’s…

I can remember that feeling like it was yesterday. A bunch of guys all sitting in the dressing room waiting to get in the game. The coach would walk in and say: “listen up!” The room would turn silent…

It’s that simple. We used to shake hands and it meant something. It meant that we can trust each other. We had integrity. And our reputation was based on it. But so many people have no integrity these days.…

1. Find your purpose first. What are you trying to change? Why do you exist? 2. Communicate a clear and powerful mission. What’s the goal? 3. Learn what motivates each individual. 4. Make a personal connection. 5. Praise, recognize…

I took a long walk with a friend a few weeks ago. She owns a yoga studio and wants to start promoting herself online. She had a lot of questions about how she should go about it. Whether she…

There was a lady in line at the coffee shop this morning that yelled at a kid working there. I didn’t hear exactly what was going on but she just yelled at him and stormed out. Two hours later…

A hundred years ago the Dean of Oxford was told that the the oak beams in the dining hall were filled with beetles and they needed to be replaced. They didn’t know where they would get beams of that…

The cab driver tells me that he doesn’t know what he would do without a GPS anymore. Once you’ve used a GPS it’s hard to go back to using your internal compass – your intuition. It’s easier to follow…

Warren Buffet showed his calendar to a business man. To the mans surprise nothing was in it. Warren told him that he spends much of his day reading about all sorts of things. Reading is a form of rapid…