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!”
Author Archives: Aleš Hejmalíček
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!”
People leadership: removing uncertainty
I do believe people are inherently evolved to feel uncertainty and similarly to entropy which grows over time, our uncertainty, if left unchecked, grows over time. When you have a random toothache and you don’t do anything about it for months, unless you are medicating somehow, you probably won’t feel more confident that it’s goingContinue reading “People leadership: removing uncertainty”
Why do we have a stigma around trauma?
#notADoctor We do have a stigma around trauma. We don’t talk about our experiences with our friends, we don’t ask for help and most of us either won’t or are not able to speak to a therapist. So why is that? There are several things in play. First of all, we don’t have the languageContinue reading “Why do we have a stigma around trauma?”
How do we measure mindfulness?
Mindfulness, yoga, and spirituality have interesting features which I still wonder about. And that is that we can’t quantify the progress easily. I can explain what has changed, but can’t put any tangible measurement to it. In the Western world, we currently live in a performance-focused era, where we are always in the face ofContinue reading “How do we measure mindfulness?”
Why we don’t design organisational processes the same as products?
If you work in an organization, take a look at how your internal processes come about. If you are an organization, look inside yourself, become aware, and ponder. Control is preceded by awareness after all. I do believe that most of you will find that there are significantly different approaches and quality of user experienceContinue reading “Why we don’t design organisational processes the same as products?”
Impostor syndrome. We have knees?!
Imagine yourself living in a world where you don’t see anyone’s legs and no one talks about them. Everyone goes around their life as normal, you just don’t have awareness of people’s legs. There is a twist though. You don’t know that you have knees, you basically, can’t bend your legs in a middle. SoContinue reading “Impostor syndrome. We have knees?!”
Not everything needs a solution
“Do this….”. “Do that… every day.” I find that for something to be popular nowadays, it has to offer a solution or at least pretend to have one. And solutions are important! However, every piece of content nowadays seems to have traits of self-help books. They explain a negative human trait in easy-to-understand analogies andContinue reading “Not everything needs a solution”
