It seems to me that solitude is the very essence of leadership. The position of the leader is ultimately an intensely solitary, even intensely lonely one. However many people you may consult, you are the one who has to make the hard decisions. And at such moments, all you really have is yourself.
I spoke to an ex Shopify employee today. He told me about what employees call a “Toby Tornado”. It made me appreciate Toby Lutke (CEO) even more.
It goes like this: Toby follows random Slack channels across the company. He would sometimes drop a message in one of them and tell everyone that the project they’re... See more