1:1 Meeting Template - Playbook Edition
Something has been showing up in my LinkedIn feed lately that I can't stop thinking about. Senior people. Directors, VPs, CTOs, COOs, Co-founders. Executives who built and scaled world-class teams. Stepping away from those roles to go back to smaller companies, sometimes even building things directly. Not retiring.
A few days ago, on one of my regular long-distance commutes to HQ, I ran out of podcasts and found myself with something that has become surprisingly rare, a bit of quiet thinking time. My mind drifted back over the last few years, across time spent in early-stage startups, companies
Burnout is not a bad week. It’s not a tough quarter. It’s not something a long weekend magically fixes. In this episode of Mistakes Were Made, Michelle Stalimeros joins me for an honest, grounded conversation about mental health, burnout, identity, leadership, and recovery. Michelle shares her personal experience
Some lessons in your career arrive slowly. Others hit hard. This is one of the latter. It is the lesson that changed the trajectory of my sales engineering career, reshaped how I build relationships and fundamentally shifted how I lead. The Moment Everything Shifted Very early in my sales engineering