Strategy is probably the most misused term in my industry. Everything is “strategy.” Yet ask a CEO “what is your strategy?” and you’ll rarely get...
Today, myself, Ged, and our very special guest, Louis Retief, attempted to define what trust really is. Aaaaaand I’m not sure we managed it. However,...
You bring in a coach because you want different results, but you won’t get those results with the same behavior. Something needs to change, and...
Strategy is probably the most misused term in my industry. Everything is “strategy.” Yet ask a CEO “what is your strategy?” and you’ll rarely get...
Today, myself, Ged, and our very special guest, Louis Retief, attempted to define what trust really is. Aaaaaand I’m not sure we managed it. However,...
You bring in a coach because you want different results, but you won’t get those results with the same behavior. Something needs to change, and...
I suggest hiring an assistant quite often. And almost every time, I get the same collection of excuses back. We’re too small. I can’t afford...
Most people who say they want a coach don’t actually want a coach. They want someone who has been where they are, who knows the...
You do not need to know every step before you begin. That sounds obvious, but it is one of the places leaders get stuck most...
Language is one of the most powerful tools a leader has. Not because it makes you sound polished, but because it shapes what happens next....
People love to hate meetings. Most meetings start late. The purpose is unclear. People arrive unprepared. Decisions do not get made. Actions do not get...
Most companies do not really imagine the future. They look at last year’s numbers, add 8%, 10%, maybe 12%, and call it a strategic plan....
I used to think meeting prep was just the responsible thing to do before a meeting. Read the dashboard. Check the agenda. Know your numbers....
I keep coming back to one simple hiring question: What DON’T you want to do? It sounds simple, but in a job interview, it can...
There’s a moment I keep noticing in everyday scenarios where everything just stops… And it usually sounds like, “We can’t do that.” And the second...
There’s a phrase that sounds harmless… but quietly wrecks more progress than almost anything else: “I didn’t have time.” It’s insane how often that line...
This card takes me back to every meeting that somehow ends with… “let’s circle back.” It’s not because the team is lazy, but because no...
This card takes me back to a moment where something felt completely impossible: realizing the night before a flight that both my kids’ passports had...
We’re all great at building to-do lists. Adding. Expanding… But is anyone intentional about stopping? And that’s where the real leverage is. Because every low-value...
Everything A.I. This episode brings three AI cards together: AI, Not How, How to AI, and Value of AI. AI isn’t just another hype cycle...
For a long time, metrics have been treated as something that simply exists. A number on a dashboard. A graph trending up or down. Useful,...
At first glance, these cards are about opposite problems. One warns against rushing decisions under pressure, while the other highlights the damage caused when decisions...
This is a concept I first heard from Greg Crabtree, who paired it with another memorable term: “terrorists.” Unfortunately, that title didn’t play nicely with...
Coach… or Couch? Dr. Pamela Carrington Rotto, founder of Markay Advisors LLC, helps CEOs and leadership teams scale their companies and achieve legacy-driven success by...
I keep coming back to this topic, not because it is a new idea, but because it is consistently encountered and often underestimated. At certain...
There’s a tension behind this card. It lives in the CEO mindset suit, but it applies to anyone leading anything. At some point, what got...
One of the most common leadership failures is assuming that expectations are “obvious.” People are hired into roles, assigned projects, and even evaluated on outcomes...
Where does your time actually go, and does it align with what matters most? The Time Audit is a simple but revealing way to answer...
Why is clarity so important? Because most of us experience the very human habit of answering too quickly, only to realize we’ve missed something important....
Does your team come to you with every question? Do you feel like progress slows the moment you’re unavailable? This is usually not a people...
The daily huddle often meets immediate resistance—people don’t want to do it. A daily huddle isn’t about adding meetings; it’s about creating a shared execution...
Do you feel that familiar pull of “I’ll just do it myself”? The 10-80-10 Principle exists precisely to interrupt that reflex. Borrowed from Dan Martell’s...
Being a CEO can be profoundly lonely. Loneliness at the top is far more common than most leaders admit. The role places you in a...
Do you know who your Core Customer really is? Most companies think they do. Many are wrong. Early on, it’s common to take any customer...
Do you ever feel like your day disappears into answering questions, making small decisions, and unblocking things your team should be able to handle? When...
Are you growing year after year yet still wondering, “Where did all the money go?” Many founder-led companies celebrate revenue wins while their bank balance...
That’s the question… again. There’s a popular take floating around that planning is a waste of time because things always change, especially in early-stage companies....
When I talk to leaders and teams about “reviews,” I know exactly what comes to mind. Traditional performance reviews are dreaded, confusing, often tied only...
When I start a meeting, I always begin with good news, and I insist my clients do the same. Starting with positivity sets the tone...
What is the purpose of Function Scorecards? A scorecard is meant to define the outcomes of a function, not to evaluate an individual’s personal performance....
When an A-player leaves, it’s rarely sudden. You feel the loss not just in performance, but in the quiet energy shift that follows, the meetings...
Do your company’s values live on the wall or in the day-to-day decisions of your people? It’s a question I wish more leaders would ask...
What makes YOU a great leader? Just the other day, I found myself speaking to a sharp group of business students at McGill University—future CEOs,...
How do you move beyond what you know to reach what you truly want? The Limiting Mindset. It’s that quiet voice that says, “We can’t...
Some people accuse me of repeating myself, but it’s not unconscious—I’m fully aware. When ideas return, I welcome them. They come through conversations, books, or...
This card was born out of a conversation with a COO who asked whether a task had been delegated or abdicated. That distinction hit me...
Too often, entrepreneurs obsess over their clever solution while skipping the step that matters most: is there a real, painful problem worth solving? Greg Crabtree’s...
We love to hate them; they feel like a burden. Yet they’re essential. Metrics are simply what we choose to count, the signals that tell...
The 20 Mile March is our way of saying: discipline beats drama. It’s about committing to steady, predictable progress—rain or shine, good day or bad—without...
Welcome to CardCast! Now, you might be thinking, “What on earth is a CardCast!?”. Let me explain…Cardcast was inspired by a curious habit developed by...
Most leadership content tells you what to think. CardCast starts with a question.
The mission behind CardCast is simple: one card surfaces an idea, and one honest conversation between two people who think differently turns that idea into something you can actually use.
These are the CEO conversations that sit underneath strategy meetings, hiring decisions, difficult feedback, growth plans, stalled momentum, and personal doubt. The cards don’t pretend to solve your problems. They help expose the assumptions, patterns, blind spots, and tensions underneath them. Because better decisions, and better leadership, start with seeing things clearly.
CEO Coach · Cards Creator · Metronomics
Milan has been around the block more times than he cares to admit. He’s been a founder with one employee and no clear direction. He’s raised capital, negotiated exits, fired people, and been fired himself. He’s been a CEO without a coach, and then a CEO with one — the difference, in his words, is huge.
He coaches company leaders now — not with rigid frameworks, but with the kind of clarity that only comes from having been genuinely stuck. The cards started as a private habit. CardCast is what happened when that habit met a good conversation partner.
CEO & Leadership Team Coach · Metronomics
Ged is based in Sydney and has spent the last decade coaching CEOs of fast-growth companies through Crystalyzer, his coaching practice. He came up through engineering, ran businesses, grew one from $8M to $30M, survived some startups that didn’t make it, and eventually found that he enjoyed helping other leaders avoid the hard lessons he’d already learned.
Like Milan, he’s a Certified Metronomics Coach. He also co-hosts the Metronomics podcast with Shannon Susko.
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