1:1 Meeting Template - Playbook Edition
Some career lessons arrive in a performance review. This one started as a throwaway line over lunch and finished at 9pm that night, with me at my laptop, working out exactly what I'd lost. A while back I had lunch with one of my oldest mates. We got
Something has been showing up in my LinkedIn feed lately that I can't stop thinking about. Senior people. Directors, VPs, CTOs, COOs, Co-founders. Executives who built and scaled world-class teams. Stepping away from those roles to go back to smaller companies, sometimes even building things directly.
A few days ago, on one of my regular long-distance commutes to HQ, I ran out of podcasts and found myself with something that has become surprisingly rare, a bit of quiet thinking time. My mind drifted back over the last few years, across time spent in early-stage
Burnout is not a bad week. It’s not a tough quarter. It’s not something a long weekend magically fixes. In this episode of Mistakes Were Made, Michelle Stalimeros joins me for an honest, grounded conversation about mental health, burnout, identity, leadership, and recovery. Michelle shares her personal experience