At Groq, tradition isn’t exactly their approach. In fact, the opposite is becoming their reputation. They live the mindset of first principles thinking, meaning they look at everything and decide what it should be. From their technology to their interview process, they’re committed to innovating – a value that has attracted incredible talent density to the AI accelerator start-up. Everyone at Groq comes from some background of success. The gravity of those past experiences means they could either decide what past experiences to adopt or invent the ones they always wanted. Changing habits can be rocky, but once the goal is...

08 December, 2021

We all know plenty of situations when we got triggered and said something in the heat of the moment which we later regretted – and where afterwards we replayed the situation in our heads on what we could have said. …could have… should have… – yet we didn’t. We all have learned – through plenty of examples and experiences – that when we react at the time when we are at the mercy of our emotions (be it anger, frustration, disappointment, fear, etc.), we generally don’t get the result we were hoping for. We may feel better for a brief moment, but...

01 December, 2021

Whether you chose the change or not, you still need to make the transition – William Bridges   Clients who are part of the leadership teams of the PE backed companies or Start-ups I work for, have been leading through many organisational changes in the past few months. And now most of them as a team, realise that their company changed, their team changed, and their own role changed as well. Some of them had to leave, some chose to leave, some needed to step up, got the opportunity to step up, some needed to make a parellel move, or down, all and mostly...

12 November, 2020

I often get the question: “How do I get the people I work with to trust me?” And I do have a personal preferred question I use to make people understand that I care for them, that they matter to me and that I am worthy of their trust. But before I ask the question, and before I advise you to ask that same question to the people you want really connect with, ask yourself these questions: Am I willing to really listen? Do I really intent to listen? Do I intent to be good to the person who is with me? Do I intent to...

22 October, 2020

The last six months of navigating through this pandemic have been quite the emotional roller coaster ride. Just like a real roller coaster, there have been periods of unbridled adrenaline followed by times when you felt the world was moving at slow motion, and every day was a repeat of the day before. These ups and downs can be fun at times, but if you’re feeling exhausted, you are not alone. Before the pandemic, many of the people I work with were describing the typical fatigue felt at the end of a normal Q1 sprint. This was considered normal and was...

08 October, 2020