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 Away Debacle: Is Judgment the Answer?
While the leaders are culpable, might our mob mentality reaction be inhibiting us from changing the systemic issues that encourage this kind of behavior?
How to find great advisors for your startup (and avoid the bad)
The advisory relationship is one of the most helpful and misunderstood relationships in the startup world. Here’s my personal take on how to get the best out of an advisory relationship from either side.
Should I Start Another Business After Selling One? Why I Might Not
As I’ve begun to look into the abyss of what might be next, I am realizing there is no way to find my way to a real answer of the work that is mine to do without casting off this identity and these assumptions.
How to Be a Better CEO, The Hardest Change Great Leaders Make
Tears rolled down my face. I walked down Sandhill Road next to the famous venture capitalist who only days earlier had handed me a generous term sheet. Now, I was telling her my life was falling apart and explaining why she’d likely want to pull the term sheet and work with someone else.
