Content whose primary subject is how an individual manages their own psychology, focus, habits, or relationship with work. The unit of change is the *person themselves*, not their business or team.
This Deep Dive explains what a true 1:1 meeting is, why it improves both employee engagement and managerial performance, what cadence and duration work best, how to keep the meeting owned by the direct report rather than drifting into status updates, and how to structure, run, and evaluate 1:1s so they become a real management system rather than a calendar ritual.
LeadershipMindset
Advisories
The moment your startup mindset becomes a liability to your growing business
The behaviours that got your business to where it is are not the same behaviours that will take it further. Most founders know this in the abstract. What is harder — and what this Advisory addresses — is recognising when the transition is already overdue, what specifically needs to change, and why the hardest part of the whole thing is not redesigning the organisation but changing how you personally operate within it.
MindsetLeadership
Digests
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Teaching Stoicism, Virtue Ethics, and Philosophy to Young People
The Daily StoicNovember 13, 2024
Resilience & grit8
Identity & self-belief7
Stoicism's tough-guy reputation is a caricature — the texts are far more universal.
Virtue ethics demands testing principles in action, not just holding opinions.
Stoicism is a living framework meant to be updated, not a closed canon.