My own miscalculation of this one element is my greatest regret looking back on my time as a founder and CEO — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. Life on hold I have been thinking a lot lately about the idea of living life on hold. That is how I would describe the way I lived for most of my years as a founder and CEO. I hear it in conversations with…

Does change feel like two steps forward and two steps back? You are not alone. — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. Screaming with strangers The sweat dripped down my face as I sat in a circle of people who until recently had been strangers. I was 20 minutes into beating the shit out of a huge pillow with a bat. On the pillow lay a…

One reason I coach is that there was one leader I loved but could not help. — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. A long goodbye I walked into the hospital room. My dad was laying there in the bed: a faint version of his prior self. For much of my life, my dad loomed huge in my eyes. He had grown up a sports star in…

Wondering if someone else might be better at your job than you are? You are not alone. — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. I feel not enough nearly all the time. I constantly wonder whether the company would be better led by someone else. Someone who actually knows what they are doing. I feel like I do not know what I am doing. …

If you are experiencing in your own journey a sense that what got you here will not get you where you need to go, you are not alone. — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. I waited the majority of my entrepreneurial career to realize a new way of leading and holding the work of entrepreneurship. But you need not wait. The new way is here and available here to you now.

Multi-tasking lowers empathy, reduces memory, and deteriorates your brain. A few thoughts on kicking the habit. — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. I recently ran across the work of prior Stanford professor Clifford Nass on the subject of multi-tasking. In his career as an academic, Nass was deeply interested in our unfolding relationships to computers. He was committed to exploring the deeply-held, but…

Facing burnout, loneliness, or anxiety? You are not alone. Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. The weight many leaders carry My mother recently sent me an article about an elk who lived for two years with a tire around his neck. …

How to navigate the fear every founder has but nobody talks about. — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. An unexpected text message I received the following message from a good friend last night: “I think I am going to shut the company down. Have time to chat tomorrow?” As I write these words, he and I are scheduled to speak later this morning…

Practical steps for building a high-trust, high-function team — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. When attrition is not an option During a particularly difficult time in my last business, we laid off nearly 80% of our staff. We reduced the team size in order to buy runway in support of a major change in how we were selling our product. The…