How I Lead

How I think. How I lead.

How I make decisions, what I expect from teams, and the questions I bring into the room when the business needs to change.

01How I Lead
  1. 01

    Systems over heroics.

    Growth shouldn't depend on one person remembering the next step. Good systems make the right thing happen consistently, no matter who owns the work.

  2. 02

    Make it easy to buy.

    Customers reward the company that's easiest to buy from. Complexity is a tax the business keeps paying until someone removes it.

  3. 03

    Build capabilities that outlast the builder.

    The goal is a business that is stronger than I found it — with capabilities the team can own and improve as it grows.

02Questions I Bring Into The Room

The answers usually reveal where the next commercial decision needs to be made — and where the business is leaving leverage on the table.

  • 01What would have to be true for us to grow significantly faster without simply adding more people?
  • 02What does each function understand about the business that the rest of the organization may be missing?
  • 03Where are we creating complexity internally that the customer never asked for?
  • 04What are we assuming about our customers, market, or business model that may no longer be true?
  • 05If we could remove one recurring source of friction from the customer or commercial journey, where would the economics change most?
  • 06What are our best people spending time on today that someone — or something — could handle instead?

The goal isn’t to become indispensable. It’s to make the business more capable — and provide the level of leadership the business needs as it grows.

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If you’re working through a commercial problem that doesn’t have an obvious owner, that’s usually where I start.

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