Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

Scaling bottleneck founders since 2007. Ex-CEO. Done it myself. No shortcuts. exedir.com Joined October 2016

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

The loudest leaders get the attention. The quietest ones build the things that last. One morning we wake up and realize we don't need the attention anymore. That's the day we became resolved.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

The thing we won't say out loud to our team is probably the thing they most need to hear. Not the soft version. The real one. Our job isn't to be liked. It's to be clear.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

A lot of what we call -strategy- is fear wearing a strategy costume. Real strategy can be written on a napkin. Fear needs a 40-slide deck and a consultant.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

List the top five things you've been blaming this year. The market. Our COO. Our investors. The hiring climate. Our co-founder. Now cross out the ones we actually can't influence. If the list is still long, we've found the problem.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

Every founder is a bottleneck. That's how companies get started. Most stay bottlenecks. That's why companies stop growing. The founder's job at every stage is to stop being the founder of the last one.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

Every complaint we have about our company is an echo from a room we built. We designed the walls. We set the temperature. We chose who's in it. If the room is wrong, redesign it. That's the whole job.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

We think we’re being nice by not giving the hard feedback. We’re not. We’re being comfortable. Unclear is unkind. They deserve the truth. So does our company.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

We’re not isolated because of our position. We’re isolated because we stopped letting anyone see we struggle. We performed our way into a cage. We can talk our way out.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

When we can't delegate something, ask what we’re actually protecting. Usually, it's not the work. It's the feeling of being the one who can do it.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

Every time we don't address bad behavior, we just made it policy. We didn't mean to. Doesn't matter. Culture is made of what we address and what we let slide. Mostly the latter.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

Our legacy isn't what we built. It's what keeps running after we stop pushing. Most of what we’re proud of today is held up by our hands. Let go and see.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

Every -I'll just do it myself- is a down payment on our future burnout. We’re not saving time. We’re borrowing it at 40% interest. The bill always comes due.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

Showing vulnerability doesn't lose our authority. It earns us the truth. And the truth is the only thing that compounds. Everything else depreciates.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

We don't think we play favorites. But three people get our time, our lunch invites, our best opportunities. The rest of our team noticed in month one. That's our culture now.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

-Busy- is the most socially acceptable place to hide from strategic thinking. No one questions it. Everyone respects it. Which is exactly why it's dangerous.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

3 months ago

We’re not getting real feedback because our people, don’t inform us. They learned that lesson the third time we got defensive. We trained them not to tell us. Now we wonder why we’re blind.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

4 months ago

Here's what scaling actually costs: The version of us that got us here. If we’re not willing to let her go, we’re not scaling. We’re plateauing with extra steps.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

4 months ago

We don't have a culture problem. We have a -what we model on stressful days- problem. Those are the days our team takes notes.

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Resolved Leader 𝘂𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘃 @ResolvedLeader

4 months ago

Vision isn't something we download at a retreat. It's the hundred small choices we make this week about what we'll say no to. Vision is a filter, not a vision board.