The Full Stack Leader

When I think of mentors, coaches, and bosses I’ve learned from the most — I often think of this adage, “Be the leader you wish you had.”

To take what I’ve learned from the mistakes and bad habits of other leaders to see a different path. Using anti-patterns and anti-glossaries to illuminate a different way to build teams and grow a sustainable business.

As useful as external education, executive training, management books, blog posts, mentors, coaches, and more: combined with best practices, our intuition and observations can bring much-needed change to how we operate.

Simon Sinek perhaps said it best:

Is that something you can influence when you’re not at the very top of the company?

Simon Sinek, from an interview in “Delta” magazine in October 2019

Absolutely, yes! Decisions might be more expedient when they come from the top, but I believe that anyone in the company can use their position to advance a just cause. We don’t have to resign ourselves to the fact that senior leaders are too short-term-focused to care and give up, thinking there’s nothing more we can do.

Soon enough, we might be that senior leader. We might bring the change the company needs.

We can’t change others. What we can do is show up to work every single day and be the leaders we wish we had.