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When you have a team of great leaders and you are charged with leading them, are you really leading them? Do they need someone to lead them? Isn’t the objective that they become great leaders so they don’t need to be lead? Perhaps then as the role of leadership evolves it moves from leading – where we work with our team on daily tasks providing constant reinforcement and direction to mentoring where we take a…

Passion? Decisiveness? Heart? Collaboration? Team? Brains? Numbers? Will? Drive? Culture? Profit? Methodology? Lead with any, all, more, less or none of these, pick the ones you want, throw away the rest, but identify how you want to lead, stick to it and make it happen.

Planning for the long-term isn’t always about minimizing risks and making sure you’re covered for a rainy day. It’s also about planning and insulating for failure. Planning for the experiments that might go awry. Planning for pivots to new ideas that might not work out the first time through. Planning for creating something with a small reward but took big time. It’s about giving yourself time to try something new, fail and try again.…

That’s the word these days – the hustle – it was shipping for a while, creating, leaping, leaning – but today the word is hustle. What is the hustle? It’s about not waiting for something to happen, it’s about going out to make it happen. Take for example Social Media, you have 10 followers now, you want to get 10,000, how are you going to do that? No matter how good your content is if…

I have friends that are Software Architects, many are quite good, but to be honest, I’ve never been much for the title. It looks fancy on a resume but it connotes that one is only focussed on architecture and not on coding. I.e., focussed on the thinking and not the doing. I’ve always held the belief that writing code is the only way you get better at design and architecture, you get better from the…