Leadership
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Chasing the next shiny thing
A few weeks ago in the gym I overheard a conversation that sounded very familiar. Two guys were standing by the dumbbell rack discussing their latest training plan. One of them had started bulking about a month earlier and looked… Continue reading
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Where Your Brand Actually Lives
I was standing in my hallway waiting for a delivery. “Delivery to your door” was the promise. That was what I had paid for. The lift was working. The entrance was open. There was nothing ambiguous about the situation. The… Continue reading
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the be-or-not-to-be board descison
At some point in many founder-led companies someone says that it might be time to bring in a board. The sentence is often delivered carefully almost as if the decision has already been made elsewhere. When you ask why the… Continue reading
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From tolerated to relevant
You’re doing your job and your boss isn’t unhappy. You deliver, you align, you stay professional. On paper, everything looks fine. Then you sit in a meeting where a decision should be made, everyone agrees in principle, and nothing happens.… Continue reading
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Make better decisions by writing the ending first
Operator Note. Part of the Green Bear Operating Manual: field observations from inside technology companies where growth, complexity, and uncertainty begin to affect decisions. Why Kill Rules save focus, motivation, and your teams sanity Most teams don’t suffer from a… Continue reading
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The data based organization does not exist, and that is fine
Operator Note Part of the Green Bear Operating Manual: field observations from inside technology companies where growth, complexity, and uncertainty begin to affect decisions. If you have ever heard a leader say, “let the data decide,” you know what happens… Continue reading
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Organisational debt: the architecture that shapes everything
Operator Note Part of the Green Bear Operating Manual: field observations from inside technology companies where growth, complexity, and uncertainty begin to affect decisions. The product team sat in a small conference room, surrounded by six different managers. None of… Continue reading







