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The Leadership Vacuum: How to Step Back Without Stepping Away
How to Delegate As A Leader There comes a time in your leadership journey where you have to move further away from the details of the business in order to grow as a leader. You need time to work on cross-functional initiatives and build relationships with your first team. I've seen a few extreme behaviors happen during this time while leaders learn to delegate: The nervous leader: This leader is concerned about getting too far away from the details. They worry that someone

Joanna Johnston
7 days ago3 min read


How to Cascade Objectives to Build Alignment and Employee Engagement
As your leadership scope grows, alignment can't depend on you communicating every priority. Here's a practical framework for connecting company objectives to the work teams do every day—and helping your leaders create alignment throughout the organization.

Joanna Johnston
Oct 177 min read


How to Be More Strategic as a Leader
Creating and cascading objectives into the work your team does every day “Be more strategic.” It’s common feedback as leaders move into more senior roles. It’s also not particularly helpful if you don’t know what doing that differently actually looks like. If you’re trying to figure out how to be more strategic as a leader, one practical place to start is with how you create alignment. If I were stepping into a VP role today, I wouldn’t spend my first week auditing the tech

Joanna Johnston
Sep 305 min read


Planning Is More Than a Budget Exercise
Planning shouldn't end when the budget is approved. Strong executive teams make the assumptions behind resource decisions explicit, measure whether those assumptions are holding, and know what evidence should cause them to reconsider.

Joanna Johnston
Sep 47 min read
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