This morning, reading Tim Ferriss’ “5-Bullet Friday” newsletter, I came across a familiar name – John Perry Barlow – and a [...]
It’s the end of the year and it seems like everybody is writing their “Best Of…” lists. I’m no exception, [...]
I’m not sure how many of you out there are fans of baseball – or even understand how it works. [...]
Myth Number 72 About Asia Founder Coaching I’m always getting asked: Do you only work with clients in Thailand? The [...]
Big news out of the US today, with President Joe Biden making the decision to withdraw from the Presidential race. [...]
How familiar is this story? A man and a woman are driving in a car and find themselves lost. The [...]
Steve Jobs famously said “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward. So, you [...]
When working on important tasks, it’s very easy to spend a good chunk of time doing nothing but that task, [...]
I used to hate journalling. I try to avoid using the word “hate” in my day-to-day conversations and was very [...]
I’ve been speaking about this with past clients – and with Founders who were interested but ultimately decided not to [...]
Over the years, 3 “greatest hits” have come to dominate my coaching clients’ request list: – I want to become a [...]
Do you ever get stuck writing or creating something that’s not part of your primary job? Like many of you, [...]
So, the answer to the age-old question of “What do you do, Paul?” I help post-seed stage founders and senior [...]
Certainly not me. While not all of them are founders, I’m still surprised at the numbers. And when it comes [...]
William McRaven is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who served as the ninth commander of the United States [...]
On Kindness… A few years back, I found myself at a burger bar in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, where my flight [...]
Values Question #1 You’re running a year-long game development project, with dozens of team members working both in the office [...]
Quote to Ponder: The late Clayton Christensen, best-selling author and Harvard professor, wrote one of my top ten Founders Library [...]
“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity…one [...]
This evening, in the Ari neighborhood of Bangkok where I’ve lived for the last year, I went to one of [...]
More thinking out loud about values…. In her book “Dare to Lead”, Brene Brown says: “A value is a way [...]
As I continue to research and develop my new coaching course on values, I’ve been reading a lot of Adam [...]
Anyone who has known me for a while knows that I’m a firm believer in serendipity. So how about this [...]
By Yvan Goudard January 7, 2024 I had the privilege of attending a highly informative and thought-provoking session at TechRocks [...]
It’s that time of year when many of us look back and review the past twelve months – some even [...]
This morning in Bangkok, I was sitting in a lovely outdoor courtyard, speaking on the phone with my daughter in [...]