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Essential Career Change Frameworks - A Collection
Should I quit or stay? I grappled with that question for almost 2 years if not longer.
In early 2021,…
Frameworks/Mental Models
Someone should have told us but no one did. Important frameworks every leader should know.
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The Mundanity of Excellence - Greatness as Mastering the Mundane
Greatness and mastery always look shrouded in mystery from the outside. But look closely and it is more about mastering…
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Strategic Agility - Balancing long term focus with short term actions
Leadership, management, and organizations are riddled with paradoxes. The more we recognize them the more we can be effective in…
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Bezos on Failure, Decision Making, and Life
In 1994 Amazon was just an idea in someone’s head, that of Jeff Bezos. Today it's a trillion dollar…
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Linear Causality vs Circular Causality in Decision Making
The "if...then" way of thinking about cause and effect is common in business. Circular causality is often missed in…
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Using Deliberate Practice to Increase Leadership Effectiveness
Deliberate practice is one of the few proven research-backed frameworks to improve performance. But it's not used enough in leadership…
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Using the Ladder of Inference to Make Better Decisions
Decisions are heavily influenced by our existing mental models of the world. What makes it tricky is that most of…
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A Framework for Year End Reviews
Doing regular reviews at midyear or yearend with ourselves are a good exercise. Frameworks can help us orient and ask…
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Types of Goals - Understanding the Nuances of Effective Goals
Goals and objectives are part of modern organizational reality. They are common parlance to the point where we often take…
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Inherent Paradoxes in Management
Leadership and management can be mind-numbingly frustrating because of the inherent paradoxes and conundrums built into the nature of the…
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Challenges of Experts Transitioning into Leadership
A common theme in coaching engagements is that of high-performers grappling with the dynamics of their new roles. Transitions can…
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Pulled by the Future vs Pushed by the Past
The framework of a “future pulling us towards it” vs a “past pushing us” can be helpful in breaking out…