The Top Topics of 2023

What you loved the most

Dec 28, 2023

Hi, it’s Suzan. I’m coming to you one last time for 2023 with a quick wrap-up of the editions you enjoyed the most this year plus some of my most popular posts on LinkedIn.

Thank you for reading and being a part of the community. I’ve got some great interviews coming up next year, I can’t wait to share them. I’d also love to know what topics you want to read about in 2024, just hit reply and let me know!

Most read essays

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Leave Your Ego at the Door

My favorite way to spend a day? Helping leadership teams transform from a group of individuals into a powerful collective. Rather than teach skills, my job is to create a container for connection. It’s a facilitated experience focused on greasing the system to reduce friction and increase their ability to work together. Individual concerns give way to t…

a year ago · 6 likes · Suzan Bond

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"How are Your Relationships With Your Peers?"

This week I’m giving you a chance to experience what it’s like to be in one of my leadership workshops. I’m going to take you through one of the most popular exercises — auditing your peer relationships. During the workshop, there’s a section on organizational relationships. It begins with this question…

a year ago · 6 likes · Suzan Bond

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Traversing the Neutral Zone

Last week I wrote about the changes coming up in my business. There’s also plenty of it in my personal world as I help my parents navigate their later years. They’ve been living on a lake for the last 30 years. They’ve created a wonderful sanctuary where sparrows, chickadees and woodpeckers flit by their windows all day. Papa cardinal sits on a branch s…

2 years ago · 7 likes · Suzan Bond

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Scaling Decision Making

Last week I talked about decision-making in complexity. A few weeks ago I wrote about the challenges at the Director level. This week I found another angle and wrote about it again. As you can tell, this subject has been on my mind. I hope you find today’s topic as fascinating as I did…

a year ago · 5 likes · Suzan Bond

Most read interviews

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Leading Through Multiple Reorgs

Reorgs are tricky parts of organizational life. Allison McMillan, a Fractional VP of Engineering is an experienced leader who has worked at companies like GitHub, Forem and General Assembly. Throughout her career she’s been through many reorgs. We talked about what it’s like to lead during a time of high organizational change, building trust with new te…

2 years ago · 1 like · Suzan Bond

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Taking Parental Leave as a CEO

The last time David Jarvis was on the series, we talked about being a first-time CEO at Griffin, a startup in a highly regulated industry. Since then he had his first child and took some time off to be with his young family. I asked David to talk about his experience taking parental leave as the CEO of a startup. We talked about how the company handled …

2 years ago · 1 like · Suzan Bond

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Finding Balance With the Weight of Being a Product Leader

I met Lauren Nagel, VP of Product at Stackhawk at their offsite where I facilitated a session for their leadership team. I was lucky to sit next to her at dinner where I got to learn more about her. I’d been wanting to feature more product leaders on the series and was happy she said yes. Our conversation covered her leadership journey, why she took the…

2 years ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Suzan Bond

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Navigating the Director Sandwich

The leap to director is often bigger than we imagine. We find ourselves with more responsibility and working at the organizational layer but also having to make sure the people doing the work are aligned. This can be challenging. I asked Sonal Mehta, Director of Engineering at Intuit…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Suzan Bond

Most popular LinkedIn posts

I’ve been writing and posting on LinkedIn more so I’m sharing some of those most popular posts here as well.

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Leading a company to success exit, an interview with Laura Del Beccaro

"One thing I struggled with was that when I saw a problem, I wanted to have the perfect solution. I never wanted to deal with this problem again, so I would spend so much time to come up with a whole new communication strategy. It took me so many times to realize that the next step just has to be the next. It can’t be the last step. Even if I found the perfect solution, it would need would change in six months again. So what is the point of spending so much time and energy to make it absolutely perfect? "

Being CTO while navigating a disability, an interview with Meri Williams

"You have to retrain your brain from thinking you're only valuable if you work harder and more and crazier hours than everybody else and tick more things off on the to-do list than everybody else and say instead, what's the impact I could have if I set everything up around me for me to be successful?"

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The Top Topics of 2023

What you loved the most

Most read essays

Most read interviews

Most popular LinkedIn posts

Your real boss

Leading a company to success exit, an interview with Laura Del Beccaro

Being CTO while navigating a disability, an interview with Meri Williams

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