Leadership starts with leading yourself. Leadership ultimately is about co-creating something with a group of people who want to shape the world around them in an agreed upon direction. The role of leaders in that space is about creating the space for collaboration, positively influencing and empowering the relationships in the space, and making sureContinue reading “The art of self-leadership”
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Let’s talk about power!
I remember well, when me and my technical Co-Lead did some work on values at the beginning of our working relationship. We got our results from a survey on personal values, and he was totally surprised to see that I ranked very low on valuing “power”. He had, up until that point, been convinced, thatContinue reading “Let’s talk about power!”
Why do you need presence to build great products?
Let’s maybe start by looking at some of the biggest mistakes you can make when trying to build great products: I could keep going with that list, and I know it well because I have made every mistake on that list at some point. Which brings me to the quality of presence, which is lackingContinue reading “Why do you need presence to build great products?”
Building a sense of interconnection into a team
We all know that sense of shared experience when we sit around a campfire with a group of people. Teams are also made of multiple people coming together to jointly go after a specific goal. And very often new teams struggle to figure out how to actually arrive at a sense of “we” as aContinue reading “Building a sense of interconnection into a team”
Learning about Leadership
Learning and curiosity are intimately linked. When I started to get curious about leadership, it began with powerful questions I asked myself. This naturally led to finding insights and answers – and learning based on my own curiosity was a ton of fun, too! Over the years I have also found, that it’s best notContinue reading “Learning about Leadership”
Questions worth pondering
A great question can function like a compass. I recently hosted two workshop experiments. One on learning about product leadership, and a similar one on learning about leadership. My learning journeys about product and leadership both started with me at some point asking myself good questions about what makes a good product manager and leader.Continue reading “Questions worth pondering”
Navigating life and work with joy
Wouldn’t we all want to simply have somebody giving us the recipe for a happy, successful and fulfilling life? And at work, how awesome would it be to have a handbook for how to do your job successfully while having fun? If these were not questions so many of us have on our mind, thereContinue reading “Navigating life and work with joy”
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