leadership
Real leadership isn't about having all the answers or projecting invincibility. It's about showing up authentically, making hard decisions with grace, and creating space for your team to thrive. The best leaders prioritize self-awareness alongside strategy. They understand leadership starts from the inside out. Your inner game, how you manage fear, handle stress, navigate conflict, directly shapes your leadership impact. Great leadership means learning to lead yourself before leading others.
The values we ought to leave behind
It is time to re-think what we celebrate in our own leadership styles and the cultures of the companies we build.
Sanity Notes #006: Going gently into the new year
The new year is a great time to reset. Applying some self-compassion might help.
Sanity Notes #004: The power of meeting others where they are
Finding yourself wishing your co-founders, employees, or investors would change? Start with accepting them where they are.
Sanity Notes #003 : Your metrics are not your worth.
This is a good year to remember that the top-level metrics of your company are not the measure of your worth as a leader.
Sanity Notes #002 : What if you could not fail?
How might you be free to lead and create if your own sense of self was not on the line?
An argument against rushing
Your presence and creative attention mean more to your people and your work than all the effort you can muster. Maybe it's time to relax.
Resilient Leadership: Dependency Is Not a Dirty Word
We have glamorized the solo, impervious leader at our own peril. Real strength comes from reliance on others.
How to get your leadership team to actually be a team.
An exploration in helping your leaders check their egos at the door and actually work together.
Why do we listen worst to those we love most?
Romantic partners, kids, co-founders, employees...often the more we feel is at stake the harder it is for us to really show up.
For a Leader: A Leadership Poem (John O'Donohue)
If you are experiencing in your own journey a sense that what got you here will not get you where you need to go, you are not alone.
