For the advanced founder: What happens to your beautiful structure when the fire starts?
What happens to your beautiful structure when the fire starts? You did the work. Roles are clear. Decisions are made bottom-up. People know what’s expected of them, and they step up without you asking. Well done. Most founders never get this far. But have you ever asked yourself what happens to all of that on […]
How to delegate when the mission feels too important to let go
I get this question a lot. How do you delegate? And I’ll be honest: I’m not always good at it. When something is new to me, I have the tendency to hold on more because I don’t yet trust myself to catch it if it goes wrong. So I try to control the thing instead. […]
Seven things nobody told me before I became chair of a movement with 13,000 members
I was 28 when I joined Volt. 31 when I became chair, in the middle of a crisis, with a lawsuit, angry members and national media. This is what I didn’t know back then. 1. You’re not equal to everyone else. Even if you badly want to be. I didn’t want to be the boss. […]
Scared of being the boss? That’s exactly why your hubs keep stalling.
There’s a sentence I hear in almost every movement, worded slightly differently each time. “We don’t want hierarchy. We want local hubs/chapters/teams to decide for themselves what works for them.” It sounds great. Democratic, bottom-up, trusting. And it’s exactly why so many local hubs stall, fade out, or quietly drift off and do their own […]