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The Space Between is a weekly contemplation on leadership that reveals the invisible chemistry between your people and guide you into the sweet spot where performance and connection multiply.
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Why your company still runs through you (opens the original)
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You have a theory about your bottleneck. Most founders at your stage do.The leaders you promoted aren’t ready yet. You need a better operating rhythm. You need to hire someone senior enough to take things off your plate.You’ve probably tried one of these already. Maybe all three. And the company still runs through you.Here’s what I think is going on, at least in part. The bottleneck isn’t a capability gap or a systems gap. It’s a few protective patterns you built decades ago, when they were usef
018: The company can’t move without you (opens the original)
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Quick test. The last decision that mattered in your company: who made it?The last conflict between two people on your team: who resolved it, or is it still waiting?This morning’s priorities: were they set, or were they whatever you picked up first?If the answer is “me” three times, you’re in good company. Many founders and leaders I work with laugh at this point. It doesn’t feel like a problem. It feels like Tuesday.It happens for a reason that’s hard to argue with: you’re good. Often the most c
017: When your company outgrows its leadership (opens the original)
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One co-founder out. The business struggling. The friendship gone.That’s where William’s company landed, 18 months after the best moment it ever had.Let’s rewind:They had grown. They had traction. And they were ready to take it to the next level. At that time, they were twelve people, and the William knew this was the moment to get help.What he didn’t know: the crack was already there. He had drifted into product. His co-founder into sales. Nobody decided this. There was too much to do, and the m
Ex-Googler: Performance is a lagging indicator (opens the original)
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spent nine years at Google, the last stretch as Chief of Staff for Google Search. Then he moved back to Thailand and joined a 15-person company. He calls it the hardest transition of his career. Not because of the brand or the salary, but because everything he had learned about doing things properly (quarters of testing, rounds of sign-off) had to go. Days and weeks, not quarters and years.The moment that shaped him most as a leader is a “small” one. His first manager at Google, sitting on the e
Chemistry Insight #6: The score that everyone skips (opens the original)
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Chemistry Insights is a series of field notes from my team chemistry assessment results - self-reported profiles completed by leaders about themselves and their teams. What you’ll find here isn’t proven research or statistically significant data. It’s patterns I keep noticing, explored through what I see in the room.The middle score with a crack in it7.1 out of 10. Not a red flag. Sitting in the middle group, it’s an easy one to skip.Which is exactly why I keep looking at it.Because
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