July 18, 2025 Hi Reader Welcome to the third and final part in our latest series - “Your Hidden Operating System”…you can catch up with the first two editions at https://theleaderscoach.kit.com/profile The words hit like a physical blow: "This is good enough." Your stomach clenches. Your jaw tightens. Every instinct screams that "good enough" is the enemy of everything you've built. But here's the psychological trap that's destroying more leadership careers than any external competitor ever...
7 days ago • 7 min read
July 11, 2025 Hi Reader This week....Part 2 of "Your Hidden Operating System". If you missed in check out Part 1 here. You spend hours (even days?) crafting the perfect strategy presentation. Every slide precise. Every data point validated. Every contingency mapped. Your peers and/or The Board approve it unanimously. Six months later, you're staring at results that bear no resemblance to your meticulously planned outcomes. Sound familiar? Would you say you're a Legacy Leader? Ok, so how would...
14 days ago • 6 min read
July 4, 2025 Hi Reader You've reached the pinnacle of your field. It might be millions in revenue under your management, a team that performs consistently at their highest level or a board room where your opinion shapes the future. Yet you still feel a familiar flutter in your stomach before presenting to certain people. You still find yourself crafting emails differently depending on who will read them. Still measuring your worth by whether the "right" people approve of your decisions. You...
21 days ago • 8 min read
June 20, 2025 Hi Reader You used to be someone before you became someone “important”. But when was the last time you remembered who that person was? You used to have interests that had nothing to do with winning. Conversations that weren't about performance. Dreams that existed outside the scoreboard. Now, when people ask what you do, you don't just describe your job, you become it. "I’m the Sporting Director at XXXX FC" or "I’m the Performance Manager with XXXX or “I’m the Head Coach for...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
June 13, 2025 Hi Reader You're surrounded by people all day, yet you've never felt more alone. Staff meetings. Board presentations. Player briefings. Media interviews. Your calendar is packed with human interaction from 7 AM until well past dinner. But when did you last have a real conversation? When did someone last ask how you're actually doing? And actually wait for an honest answer? When did you last speak to someone who truly understands the weight you carry, without needing to explain...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
June 6, 2025 Hi Reader You check your phone at 11:47 PM. Again. Three new messages from coaching staff. Two "urgent" emails from the board. A text from your performance director about tomorrow's session changes. You tell yourself you'll just quickly respond to the critical ones. Twenty minutes later, you're still scrolling, your mind racing with decisions that can't wait until morning. Sound familiar? Yeah, and I’ve been there too. Here's what no one tells you about reaching the apex of...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
May 30, 2025 Hi Reader Last week I shared a framework with you that I’ve used on different occasions with clients. And, in truth, on occasions there has been some pushback and it all hasn’t been straight-line success stories. I’ve really enjoyed pulling together this week’s edition as it shows that a lot of what I share here is iterative and we’ve got to evolve and iterate for different contexts and situations. Think of it this way…..you've identified the type of strategic opposition you're...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
May 23, 2025 Hi Reader You're staring at the performance data again. Two months ago, you rolled out what should have been a game-changing initiative. The strategy was sound. The resources were allocated. The communication was clear. But here you are; watching mediocre results stumble in while your board starts asking questions you're not prepared to answer. What's eating at you isn't just the poor performance. It's the dawning realisation that you might be the problem. Not because you're...
2 months ago • 7 min read
May 16, 2025 Hi Reader An otherwise quiet Tuesday morning and a sporting director client name came up on my phone screen. No hanging about. Straight to business. "Remember that player development pathway we spent three months designing? It's dead." "Ok….What happened?" I asked. "Nothing happened. That's the problem. It never really made it past the f%$king PowerPoint." I wasn't all that surprised. It was kind of predictable. Last week, I revealed how top sports clubs/organisations lose 63% of...
2 months ago • 5 min read