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Welcome to CardCast! Inspired by Milan Veverka’s habit of jotting insights on blank playing cards, this practice grew into a digital archive and now a podcast.
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49. The Worst Time to Rush a Hire Is When You Need One Most (opens the original)
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"Given where the company is, we don't really have the luxury of a full hiring process." A CEO said that to me while hiring a CTO. His company was already in a difficult spot, and this was the person meant to pull them out of it. It stopped me cold. You cannot afford not to do it. Get this hire wrong, and it might be the end of the company . The point of the process isn't finding great people. It's avoiding the wrong ones. An empty chair beats the wrong person in the chair, and it sounds controve
48. What Exactly Is Business Strategy? (P.S. It's Not a Plan) (opens the original)
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Strategy is probably the most misused term in my industry. Everything is "strategy." Yet ask a CEO "what is your strategy?" and you’ll rarely get a good answer. Ged has a story that captures the problem perfectly. He'd just kicked off with a new leadership team, and the CEO kept telling him the same thing: don't spend time on strategy, we're already aligned. So Ged handed out Sharpies and sticky notes and asked each person to write down the strategy. Would it surprise you to know that no one wro
47. How to Spot a Lack of Trust in Your Leadership Team with Louis Retief (opens the original)
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Today, myself, Ged, and our very special guest, Louis Retief, attempted to define what trust really is. Aaaaaand I'm not sure we managed it. However, Louis was the right person to attempt it with. I've known him since 2020, from his years as founder and CEO of Hubly, a company he took from founding all the way to exit. For Louis, trust is a topic he's been living, not theorizing. He opened with a question I'm still thinking about: how does a dog know who to trust? No language. No framework. Almo
46. Why CEOs Who Stop Learning Stop Growing (opens the original)
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You bring in a coach because you want different results, but you won't get those results with the same behavior. Something needs to change, and that starts with learning something new . It's why I look at whether a CEO is a learner before anything else. If they're not learning, they're probably not coachable, and there is no helping them. Simple as that. The shuffle gave us something new this episode: our first joker . The card about the cards. Here's the uncomfortable truth about how most leade
45. Why Every CEO Needs an Assistant (and Most Won't Admit It) (opens the original)
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I suggest hiring an assistant quite often. And almost every time, I get the same collection of excuses back. We're too small. I can't afford it. Cash flow is tight. And my favourite: I'm not that kind of CEO. As if only assholes have assistants. But there's one excuse that tells me more than all the others combined: I don't have time to teach them what I do. Let that sink in for a moment. What that person is actually saying is: I am prepared to do this task ten more times, a hundred more times,
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