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Advisor to CEOs & Senior Leaders when Leadership Judgement comes under Pressure
Creator of The Executive Mirror™ Diagnostic
✅ Former C-suite in global finance
✅ Supported in deals +300M €

05/10/2026

Ask a team to build the tallest tower they can, as fast as they can, and they stack the bricks straight up. The first gust of wind knocks it over.

Give them a longer deadline, and they start with the foundation.

Steven Bartlett told this story at the Nordic Business Forum.

A lot of businesses are built like the fast tower. A quick hire because someone was available. A shortcut to hit the quarter. The difficult conversation postponed again.

At the time, they feel less like decisions and more like relief. Under pressure, the mind picks whatever makes today's discomfort stop, and calls it being pragmatic.

It all holds, until someone tests what you built. If you ever sell, that someone is the buyer.

So before your next big decision, ask yourself: am I choosing this because it's right, or because it ends the discomfort fastest? And would I be comfortable being exposed to it later?

Send this to someone who is making a big decision under a deadline right now.

03/10/2026

Most people "know" that Michelangelo designed the Swiss Guard uniform. He didn't.

The uniform the guards wear today goes back to 1914, when their commandant, Jules Repond, redesigned it with Raphael's Renaissance frescoes as inspiration. The Michelangelo version is simply the better story, so it keeps getting passed on.

I thought about that standing between two of these uniforms as a guest of the Freunde der Schweizergarde. Davide, the association's president, had invited me to an evening that began with a church service and ended with raclette.

Every company has its own Michelangelo stories. "Our customers would never pay more." "He's not board material." Somebody said it once, it sounded plausible, and each retelling made it a little more solid. By the time a big decision rests on it, nobody remembers where it came from. So before it does, ask who said it first, and what they based it on.

The most expensive beliefs in a business are often the ones everyone already agrees on.

Send this to the colleague who always asks "what’s that based on?" (if they are not your best friend already, make it happen and thank me later)

02/10/2026

If you want a better price for your company, stop filling the silence after you name your number.

Rushing to explain a number you've just named comes across as insecurity, as if it can't stand on its own. A good buyer will simply wait while your nerves talk the price down for them.

Your reasoning belongs before the number, or after the buyer asks for it. Then name your number and stop talking.

The silence will feel endless, and it will feel like rejection. Often the buyer is simply calculating, or waiting to see if you start talking your own number down. And it lasts about as long as it takes them to reach for their coffee.

Your silence reads as confidence, and it hands the next move to the buyer.

Send this to someone who is preparing to put a serious number on someone's table.

30/09/2026

There are four ways to tell the story of the worst day of your life.

Oprah Winfrey spoke about three of them when she closed Nordic Business Forum in Helsinki: "for you", "by you" and "through you". I had the honour of meeting her afterwards, and few people live the last two the way she does.

But there's a fourth one that comes first: "it happened to me". I call it The Outsourcer, because someone else is holding the pen on your story. It's the one I see keeping people stuck.

The Awakened reads the same event as something that happened for them. From there, The Enabler builds something with it, and The Altruist's building ends up carrying other people.

Nobody lives on one level. We can all be outsourcers about a delayed train and enablers in a hard negotiation before lunch.

When a snowmobile hit me from behind at 60 km/h and broke my back and my pelvis, I couldn't even move my toes for days (that felt like years). People called it horrible. I refused to agree with them, and the best things in my life followed from that refusal.

Next time something goes wrong and your first thought is that it happened to you, ask yourself one question. What if this was actually the best thing that could happen for you right now? Then watch your brain start looking for a way forward.

P.S. If someone you care about is going through something hard right now, send them this. The what-if question might be exactly what they need.

26/07/2026

Every great creation begins with a plan to fill a void.

Someone noticed a gap where something should exist and did not, and instead of walking past it, they decided to be the one to close it.

We understand this instinctively about products and companies, and forget it completely about our own lives. The dissatisfaction you feel, the sense that something is missing, the low hum that the current version of things is not quite it, that is not a fault in your wiring.

That is the void doing its job, showing you exactly where the next thing wants to be built.

The trap is treating the emptiness as a problem to be soothed rather than a brief to be answered. So we fill it with the nearest available comfort and wonder why the hum is back by Tuesday. The void was never asking to be numbed. It was pointing.

This is where a life stops being something that happens to you and becomes something you author. You stop being the character the plot happens to, and you start being the one who decides what gets built next.

That is the whole shape of a plot twist, and it starts the moment you take the gap seriously.

Ask yourself, what void have you been managing instead of building into?

Follow if this is your kind of thinking.

23/07/2026

Even what you see with your own eyes is partly made up on your behalf.

Now the part that should give you pause.

Your brain does the exact same thing with meaning.

It takes what happened, drops what does not fit, patches the hole with a story, and hands you the finished version as if that were simply the truth.

You never experience the raw event.

You experience the edit, and you make your decisions from the edit.

If you want to see the edit, you know where to find me.

22/07/2026

You think you decide how you feel about things. You don't.

By the time you "decide" how to feel about that email, the raised eyebrow in the meeting, the message left on read, your brain has already decided for you, and it didn't check in first.

Interpretation runs first, always. Your brain slaps a meaning on the thing in a fraction of a second, before conscious thought has even shown up for work, and then your thinking spends the rest of the day building the case for a verdict that was already in. You feel like the judge. You're actually the defence lawyer, hired after the ruling.

Which would be fine, except you then go and act on the verdict. You reply, you go cold, you decide someone's against you, all on the strength of a story your brain wrote at speed and filed under "fact."

Belief literacy is really just the skill of catching that gap, the one between what actually happened and what your brain made it mean before you got a say.

So, take one reaction from this week and split it down the middle. What was the event, and what was your edit?

21/07/2026

We overvalue what is close and discount what is far.

It is one of the most reliable biases in decision-making, and it runs more senior calls than anyone admits. The quarter in front of you beats the payoff three years out every time, because one is close enough to feel and the other is still an abstraction.

This is how capable leaders end up underinvesting in exactly what matters most. The distant thing, the capability you are building, the risk you could head off now, carries no weight in the room, so the near and noisy wins the budget.

The answer is not more discipline. It is to make the far thing concrete enough to compete. Not "improve ex*****on," but the specific deal that falls over, the person you cannot afford to lose who quietly starts looking, the number you will be explaining to the board.

Bring the distant consequence close enough to feel, and it starts holding its own against the quarter.

What are you discounting right now, only because it is still far away?

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Follow if this is your kind of thinking.

18/07/2026

You have probably sat in a room you earned your way into and felt, privately, that you did not belong there.

Most capable people have. The feeling arrives with total confidence and almost no evidence, which is worth noticing, because that is exactly how a faulty conclusion behaves.

So treat it like one and put it on the stand. What exactly makes you feel unqualified here? Not the vague cloud of "not good enough," but the precise thing. A gap in one skill, a room full of people speaking a language you are still learning, one comment from years ago that lodged somewhere and never left.

Now trace what caused the feeling, back until you find the actual origin, because it almost always turns out to be one moment, one person, or one standard you never agreed to in the first place.

Then the question that does the real work. Is it reasonable to believe that one origin proves something permanent about you? That is the move impostor syndrome makes and hopes you will not check. It takes a single data point and stretches it into a life sentence.

Inductive logic is only as good as the sample it is built on, and a sample of one is not a pattern.

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Follow if this resonates.

16/07/2026

Solon told the richest man in the world that he could not yet be called happy, because you cannot judge the nature of a life until it is over. It sounds harsh until you turn it around, and then it becomes one of the most freeing ideas I know.

If the verdict on a life can only be delivered at the end, then "it's too late" is a ruling you are simply not qualified to hand down yet. You are passing sentence on a story that is still being written, from a chapter somewhere in the middle, with none of the ending in front of you.

We do this constantly. Too late to change direction, too late to build the thing, too late to become the person the earlier version of you gave up on. Each one feels like a fact when it is actually a forecast wearing a conclusion's clothes, and one you have no way of confirming.

The people who move late in their careers, or their lives, are not braver than everyone else. They have just stopped accepting an unfinished story as a finished one.

So the honest question is not whether it is too late.

It is who decided that, and what they could possibly know.

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Follow if this is your kind of thinking.

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