This is a README offers information about me in advance of meeting professionally or socially.
My short and long form bio is on LinkedIn. I'm on Twitter. I use WhatsApp for people I know well.
What's it like to work with me? I've tried to summarize my leadership style in a purpose statement:
My purpose is to lead teams by unlocking the potential in individuals and organizations to deliver meaningful outcomes we are all proud of.
I'm sharing it here so that you'll have context on how I try to lead ahead of our meeting or working together. To unpack this a bit, here are three components of my purpose in priority order:
- Impact: The "meaningful outcomes we are all proud of" part means I value high impact achievements for organizations over individual achievements or low impact achievements. Whether it's a series of incremental improvements that pay high dividends over time, or strategic big wins that uplift us, true satisfaction for me is working together to do great work.
- Genius: As part of "unlocking the potential in individuals and organizations", I believe every single person has Zones of Genius. Genius is energizing, remarkable ability that people exhibit when it's properly unlocked with the right context and support. I'm excited about bringing those out in people, and working with leaders who can do the same. I believe organizations have their own version, which is how it operates as the sum of the Genius in its teams. My approach to leadership is these two things put together--finding the Genius among individuals, and iterating on organizations to operate as the sum of our collective Genius.
- Relationships: Part of "lead teams" and "outcomes we are all proud of" speaks to our human relationships. In my mind, trust in relationships--being able to tell someone how you genuinely think and feel--is the foundation of strong relationships and strong organizations. It's only through trust that we can have the critique, self-awareness, and iteration needed to grow into our better selves over and over at speed.
These are my personal leadership values, in the context of my purpose. If these resonate with you, maybe there's an opportunity to work together in future. Happy to discuss them when we meet--and I would be delighted to hear about your style of leadership.
- CEO Informational - Information for potential partners and executive candidates to learn more about working with CEO and company.
- Leadership Principles Interview - Pre-reading for CEO interview for non-exec candidates.
- Review Meeting Process - What to expect in review meetings with me at Mattermost
- CEO Informational - Meeting to learn about working at our company
- Leadership Principles Interview - Pre-reading for CEO interview
- Architecture - How I think and behave
- Mindsets - Frameworks I've used successfully in the past
- Personal Info - More about me
- Personal Meeting - Where and when to meet for social catchups
- Being this open isn't for everyone - Some people have suggested public README files for people who work for me. I know this could be highly uncomfortable for people who value privacy. I DO NOT encourage people to publicly publish README files. It's just my personal preference and choice. No one should be pressured to do this.
- This is the past, not the future - Anticipate iteration in everything here.
- No sales people, please - I try to be open on how I operate professionally while at the same time keeping my name and my company name off this page to avoid sales people getting creepy--if you're a sales person who's some how found this page on me, please realize how creepy you'll come across using the info here.