Leadership
Over time riding the roller coaster of leadership and entrepreneurship, I started repeating a mantra: Never waste a crisis Too often we’d get bogged down in the reality of the crisis at hand, understandably. But every crisis has an opportunity in it. A crisis is something I think we humans sometimes need to actually evolve…
One of the most powerful lessons I learned from my business mentor was this question: What’s in it for them? It’s the missing part of your company vision, strategy and goals … and the overlooked ingredient to unlocking passion … for your team. We know why we as leaders and founders care. We know what’s…
I posted this on LinkedIn and wanted to share it here as it’s part of my core passion in the work I do today …. Here’s how I got started building, running, leading customer communities, which I now do specifically at hosting.com as Chief Evangelist: It was 2009, barely two years into running iThemes &…
I’ve been a leader, I am a leader … and love thinking about and practicing leadership. Even if I’m a little anxious acknowledging that here. But my one-word definition of my brand of leadership is this: CARE Care about the humans, first, always and forever. It’s about people. AND that starts with myself …. Caring…
At hosting.com, we’re working on our first version of our core values, along with our vision and mission. And I’m honored and thankful to be contributing to this work for us. But I put a HUGE emphasis on our values and this work. They aren’t just another checkbox for me and I take them very seriously…
One of the new big things I’m taking on at A2 Hosting is team comms for our 800+ team that’s growing every day. “Communication is oxygen.” So job no. 1 is keeping our team INFORMED in a fast paced environment. Connecting weekly with our leadership in our CEO and COO and next our key leaders/influencers…
Been reading The Gap and The Gain by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan. I’ve known of this concept of which the book is named of Dan’s for a while now. But I stumbled into the chapter talking about success criteria and tried working on that over the weekend. A question to help me unearth the…
So many times we get into these self-limiting, self-defeating conversations with ourselves. I didn’t get the project done. I’m not a leader. I haven’t built a million dollar company. I haven’t mastered giving and getting feedback. I’m not where I want to be. But then there is one of the most powerful words in the…
If I had a time machine and could go back to talk to Cory in 2007-2008 and give him one and only one piece of advice, I would NOT talk about how to double revenue or how he should get to automatic subscription revenue as fast as possible, or nuances of team dynamics or how…
Been reading How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy Milkman and it’s really superb. One nugget of gold stood out to me this weekend. Basically she writes that giving advice to others, particularly unsolicited advice, can be defeating and deflating. Too often, we…