The Diary of a CEO

According to 238 diary entries by workers in a variety of industries, the factor that kills meaning the fastest is a leadership team that dismisses an employee’s work or ideas, removes their sense of ownership and autonomy and asks them to spend time on work that is cancelled, changed or disregarded before it’s been completed.

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In every company and team I run, the head of the team is asked to broadcast a weekly update to the entire company detailing all the progress their team has made that week. This ritual has been incredibly powerful in creating a collective sense that we’re ‘going somewhere’ as Sir David Brailsford would say, and when people feel like they’re going somewhere, they’re more motivated, feel happier and are more engaged with leadership.

In every company and team I run, the head of the team is asked to broadcast a weekly update to the entire company detailing all the progress their team has made that week. This ritual has been incredibly powerful in creating a collective sense that we’re ‘going somewhere’ as Sir David Brailsford would say, and when people feel like they’re going somewhere, they’re more motivated, feel happier and are more engaged with leadership