Cassandra Nadira Lee

LIFT Newsletter 065 On Thursday I sat down live with Pak Salman, co-founder of ParagonCorp. It was live and not shared, so if you could not join, you might think you missed it for good. You did not. For a while now I have been building a channel called LIFT: ElevateX. It is where I sit down with leaders across Southeast Asia and ask them the real questions, how they built what they built, what it cost them, what they got wrong, what kept them going. Not the clean version people tell on stage....

LIFT Newsletter 064 There is who you are, and then there is who you become in the meeting room. Quieter. Careful. Holding the real opinion back, keeping what you believe most to yourself, because somewhere it feels safer to. You have done it this month, I am sure of it. I have too. But here is where a lot of us get confused, and the confusion is worth clearing up, because two very different things get called by the same name. Being agile and flexible is not losing your values. It is learning...

LIFT Newsletter 063 Over the last couple of weeks we built two moves a leader uses to get things done. The request, asking clearly so nothing gets lost in a hint. The offer, putting yourself forward for the work that decides what you get known for. Both act on what is already in front of you. This week's move creates what is not there yet. The declaration. A declaration is you saying something is so, and by saying it, starting to make it so. “This is where we are going.” “We are not doing...