Author Archives: Paul Meyers

Do you ever get stuck writing or creating something that’s not part of your primary job? Like many of you, I have the problem of getting started or working consistently on my side projects, those things that aren’t my primary job but that I still want to do: writing articles, creating a new course, scripting […]

So, the answer to the age-old question of “What do you do, Paul?” I help post-seed stage founders and senior executives of fast-growing companies acquire the leadership skills they’ll need to build strong teams and successful companies. ➡️ The #1 question I hear from prospective coaching clients is: “How do I become a better leader?” 😲 They […]

Certainly not me. While not all of them are founders, I’m still surprised at the numbers. And when it comes to female founders, with less than 5% of female-founded companies receiving venture funding, I’m amazed at the percentages I’m seeing. Frankly, I’m a bit mystified at why this is, but I’m super pleased at the […]

William McRaven is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who served as the ninth commander of the United States Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he was the chancellor of The University of Texas System. In 2014, as part of his commencement address to 8,000 University of Texas undergraduates, […]

On Kindness… A few years back, I found myself at a burger bar in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, where my flight to SFO had been delayed by a few hours, threatening my connection back to Singapore. Not in the best of moods, I ordered a cheeseburger and a beer as solace. The burger arrived, then after […]

Values Question #1 You’re running a year-long game development project, with dozens of team members working both in the office and remotely, some in other countries. You’re into the final months and need additional help on the artwork in order to finish in time. You get the budget and start recruiting for a new artist. […]

Quote to Ponder: The late Clayton Christensen, best-selling author and Harvard professor, wrote one of my top ten Founders Library books: “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” which The Economist called one of the six most important business books ever written. An influential business innovation theorist, lifelong learner and prolific author,  in 2012 Professor Christensen published “How Will […]

“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity…one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.” So said Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the prolific Hungarian-American psychologist who, among other things, recognized and named the […]

This evening, in the Ari neighborhood of Bangkok where I’ve lived for the last year, I went to one of my usual haunts for a post-workout dinner, as I do once or twice a week. It’s a pretty simple place – traditional Northern Thai food served on wooden tables in a building with a roof […]

More thinking out loud about values…. In her book “Dare to Lead”, Brene Brown says: “A value is a way of being or believing that we hold most important. Living into our values means that we do more than profess our values, we practice them. We walk our talk – we are clear about what […]