I disagree you should switch your leadership style depending on the situation.

You must instead strive to deploy it in the right conditions.

Keep it in check where it doesn't suit much.

I have been OOO since 2015.

LinkedIn constantly switching back my feed from "Recent" to "Top" is driving me nuts.

People around you have a significant influence on your energy.

They give or take energy from you.

Surround yourself with high-quality, high integrity, and optimistic people.

The greatest lie is that people need to be in the office to feel like a community.

The most profound shared connection at work relies on the employer's continued economic success – where relationships end if that changes.

Growth is not always about adding more resources. You can sustain unlimited growth by constantly finding new ways to generate more and more value from the same resources.

Maintaining a backlog is a big time waster.

Tasks stack into infinite lists.

You quickly lost track of all items and their value proposition.

It takes mental space, and you don't find time to deal with all of them.

For any significant problem to solve:

• Define a fixed boundary (budget and scope).
• Give creative and intelligent people the freedom to design a solution within it.
• Ensure they have space and focus during execution.

Watch them doing incredible work they are very proud of.

Just because a meeting is productive doesn't mean it's productive for everyone there. And just because it's productive for someone to be in a meeting doesn't mean it's productive for them to be there the whole time.

Teaching a company to value something it doesn't care about is the hardest work you can do and has a high chance of failure.

Do as little of it as you can, but no less.

There's work that you're faster at or better at than other people. Much significant is the work that simply won't happen if you don't do it.

Focus everything you have on it.

Each task in your project has an associated probability of being delayed.

The more tasks your plan has, the more likely you will deliver the project late.

Leaders, with your privilege, relationships you've built across the company, and ability to see around corners, you can shift project outcomes by investing the slightest ounce of effort in the right place.

The most valuable work you can do.

A simple system to validate an idea:

• Define your idea.
• Design an experiment with clear goals.
• Predict what you think will happen.
• Build your idea.
• Test so you can measure your prediction.
• You fail. Restart. You succeed. Keep iterating the same way.

Percentage of complete/accurate work items or %C/A measures what percentage of the time downstream customers receive work that is usable as is.

It helps you find where you need to improve processes.

Work items in your pipeline must go through as fast as possible.

Before starting anything, work on your accountability.

If you don't, you are cursed to fail.

Build resiliency and consistency. You'll never succeed if you stop at the first challenge.

Find a group of mutual interest (friends, family, or peers) to keep you going.

Pursue freedom for yourself while providing value for others.

Working remotely removes the belonging part from a traditional central place (the office, the company) in favour of numerous regional communities where your workers are located.

To make remote workers belong, find a way to connect with their local culture.

I decided to stop reading and watching news two months ago. Best decision made recently. I saw a net positive impact on my morale.

Information I digested only fed my anxiety as I am powerless anyway.

Strongly recommend.

When presented with two options, choose the one that brings more luck.