How to Live

Your annual health checkup is a good start. But it’s not enough. You’re in your 40s. Your doctor says you're fine. Your weight looks fine. But your energy is low. Your sleep is off. Something just feels… off. Amanda Lim sees this every day. She’s a Harvard-certified coach and co-founder of Singapore...

Founders (and leaders) are addicted to solving problems. It’s their crack cocaine. That’s what startup scaling coach Rob Bier, author of Smooth Scaling and coach to 40+ startups including six unicorns, told me. And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Fixing things feels good. It pro...

Most career transitions are treated like cliff jumps. You quit the job. Burn the bridges. Bet everything on your dream. Shiv Choudhury chose a different path. When he left BCG to build a billion-dollar business, he didn’t go all in. First, he faked an app. It didn’t even work. But it taught him one ...

Which of These 6 Success Traps Is Holding You Back? After my article on The Success Trap in Esquire resonated with so many, I’ve gone deeper in my latest How to Live podcast. Working with thousands of senior leaders at Google, Unilever, and HSBC, I’ve identified 6 fear-based identities that block ev...

You Can Only Make So Many Good Decisions - Are You Using Them Right? In 1987, we made 100s of decisions daily. Today, we make 35,000. Here's the problem: we can only make a finite number of quality decisions each day. By evening, when we're making important business decisions during work calls or sp...

When scaling a cause, should you pick passionate volunteers or capable ones? Most instinctively say passion. But Uma Thana Balasingam’s journey scaling Lean In Singapore to 7,000+ members tells a different story. Here’s the hard truth she discovered: Passionate people don’t always make great leaders...