INSIGHTS

Thoughts and experience from practice

Here I write about patterns I have encountered in over 25 years of project work: what works, what fails, and what I take away from it.

Reflection with a wide view

Developing an established team — without running it over

Established companies face a different question than startups: not "how do we build a team?", but "how do…

The Golden Circle — and the most common way it gets misused

Why do some organizations do what they do, and others merely become it? Simon Sinek's Golden Circle answers…

Leadership between strategy and team — three tensions that stay

Leadership in technical organizations is a balancing act. Deliver company goals without wearing the team down. Deliver operational…

Building a team in early growth — four pitfalls, and what helps

Early in a young company, something decides more about later success than any technology choice: how the team…

From expert to leader — a transition nobody prepares you for

The move from expert to leader is one of the turning points in a career, and one of…