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. …

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…

There is no perfect in leadership. Why then is it so damn hard to accept our own imperfections? Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. In the last few years, my day job has shifted from CEO to coach. …

Looking back, I can see that in my earliest days as a founder and CEO I was comparing my insides to everybody else’s outsides. That was not a recipe for success. — Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. Since elementary school, when I felt alone and out of place wandering the playground, I have been someone who hungers for connection, intimacy, and real friendship. Not every founder I have met over the past ten years has been up for…

Those founders you read about in the press and idolize? Yep, they are up at 3 AM too. Originally posted at mattmunson.me. Subscribe here for regular updates. A fateful dinner I opened the door to the dimly lit restaurant. A mix of anxiety and excitement washed over me. The dinner was being hosted…