This post is about good old delegating outcomes versus delegating tasks and why it matters even more in the AI era. I tried a few different prompts to generate a header for this post. All of them were pretty much what you would expect. All the drivel you find all over LinkedIn, marketing materials orContinue reading “Delegating to AI made this header pretty boring”
Author Archives: Aleš Hejmalíček
Leading insecure overarchievers
We’ve all worked with people who would fall into this category. People who are consistently doing more than is expected, in amazing quality, work longer hours without being asked and in the end come across as incredibly humble folks. In some cases that insecurity will be overcompensated by false confidence or bravado. However the rootContinue reading “Leading insecure overarchievers”
Find a ladder and keep climbing…
If you would be in a basement that would be on fire and only way out would be scolding hot metal ladder, would you climb it? What if you wouldn’t see any fire, but only a smoke? Or you wouldn’t really notice any fire, but your family from upstairs would shout at you that youContinue reading “Find a ladder and keep climbing…”
You can meet people only as deeply as you met yourself
We are all on our journey through this life. We are just in different places at different times. It doesn’t mean that we will forever drift apart if we are not met as deeply as we would want. People have their own pace. There will be times when you will feel misunderstood and that’s ok.Continue reading “You can meet people only as deeply as you met yourself”
What if I was on your side all along…
Anxiety, obsessive thoughts, fears, nightmares, aches, mild panic attacks, sudden jumps in heart rate… When I was a kid, I had nightmares. A lot of nightmares. That kind of that goes deep into your bone and through your whole body. The one where you wake up petrified, where you can’t move and your body canContinue reading “What if I was on your side all along…”
What would I have to hear to change my opinion?
Next time, when you get stuck in your head, repeating the same problem over and over again. In a moment of awareness or through some reminder like a post-it note on a screen, ask yourself “What would I have to hear to change my opinion?”. And then watch the mess. Your ego will start toContinue reading “What would I have to hear to change my opinion?”
Commit and lead!
Don’t sit on the edge… don’t!…. just don’t… What we will talk about today is leadership and the need for commitment at all times. Commitment to the big things and to the small things. We all have some common understanding of what it means when someone doesn’t commit. Usually, it means that someone doesn’t wantContinue reading “Commit and lead!”
Future of digital financial advice
Just a tech guy hanging around in the industry. Not an expert, nor a financial adviser. We’ve seen great progress in financial advice in the last 10-20 years in the UK, moving from “analogue” to “digital”. And it’s great. There is more efficiency, transparency, and clients have an easier way to access their valuations, plans,Continue reading “Future of digital financial advice”
Leadership and people alligment. Just talk!
It’s the only ability we have outside of text and pictures we can use, so we should obviously use it. And we do talk to each other, right? RIGHT?! We are on calls at work from early morning until late evening everyday. Either talking, listening, or petting a cat on our lap, hoping no oneContinue reading “Leadership and people alligment. Just talk!”
Ready, command, control, lose trust, no go!
This is my reflection after reading the book Turn the Ship Around. It is a brilliant book, which gives a quick insight into leadership, and what motivates us and provides sets of questions to reflect on. It’s also short and captivating! In the book David Marquet describes the difference between the leader-follower (know-all-tell-all) model ofContinue reading “Ready, command, control, lose trust, no go!”
Just above average 