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My Agent Stack
I maintain a broader post about the tools I use to run my life and business. This is the AI slice: what sits behind my agent team. The test I apply to anything in this list: if my laptop is closed, can the team keep working? That's the
Alignment Is the Risk Nobody Talks About
You can feel it before you can name it. The company is growing. Hiring is up. Teams are shipping. The board deck looks healthy. But something is off. Meetings take longer than they should. Decisions get revisited. Good people leave and nobody can explain why. There is a drag on
Vision to Values: The 9 Misunderstood Blocks of Aligned Teams
Most leadership teams are misaligned. And it’s not because they don’t care. It’s because no one taught them how to align the building blocks of vision, strategy, and culture with the same discipline as a well-run product org. The result? * Goals become unclear * Decisions get harder * Teams
The Systems and Tools and I Use to Run My Life and Business
Last updated: April 2025 I’ve always been fascinated by personal productivity. Not for the sake of ticking boxes, but as a means of unlocking human potential. That interest started early. While on exchange at Copenhagen Business School, I began planning the first TEDxMacquarieUniversity event. The team I was leading
1-2-1: The conditions you're creating
Three patterns keep showing up in coaching: the leader whose team won't step up, the director who can't get honest feedback, the VP burning out while complaining about workload. In each case, some of it is outside their control. Not all of it. Jerry Colonna asks
1-2-1: Reactivity is expensive
Every reactive message I've seen dissected in coaching has the same profile: the content was fine, the timing and tone caused the damage. The email fired off hot. The escalation in the meeting. The response shaped by a stakeholder's tone. And then the cleanup that takes
1-2-1: When alignment becomes the bottleneck
The word I keep hearing in sessions right now is "alignment," usually right before nothing happens. Half my coaching work is alignment. Here's when it becomes the problem. 1 Principle Alignment done once creates momentum. Alignment done constantly creates paralysis. The tell is in the direction
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