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Patrik Hellstrand

Patrik Hellstrand

At the age of 20, I started traveling the world to experience new things, and now as a CEO, I share some of those ideas and lessons learned along the way to inspire thriving careers and lives.

207 posts •
Leadership

Use OKRs to focus teams during tough times

Ask your team... What is most important for the next three weeks? Even in good times, successful organizations focus on the handful of initiatives that can make a real difference, deferring less urgent

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Feature Stories

Want to change the world?

Congratulations. You've achieved career success. But it isn't enough. Our communities and global causes need your talent to make positive changes in our world by tackling big societal problems. If, increasingly, community or

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Growth

Less money = better companies

Entrepreneurs who act like banks by raising huge sums of money opportunistically, or worse, out of pride or false validation, often face unfavorable outcomes. Growth capital, when used properly, has energized many of

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
2 min read
Expectations

Unconscious judging vs. Conscious observation

We all, at times, make quick conclusions about someone, only to find out that we were wrong. When we act on snap judgments, it's not a good feeling, and it tends to stick

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Curiosity

Development matters

If you grow more capabilities more quickly than others do, you'll perform better today, earn opportunities to perform better in the future, and a virtuous cycle will take hold — development matters. Unfortunately, most

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Team

Unlock human potential

The ability to recognize talent, unlock human potential, and find not just the best person for each role, but also the best position for each person, is key to developing winning teams. But

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
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Resilience

The stuff of real leadership

The skills required to conquer adversity and emerge stronger and more committed than ever are the same ones that make for extraordinary leaders. Why do certain people naturally inspire confidence, loyalty, and hard

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
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Expectations

Everything is a step to a better place

Inevitably, everything we go through in life is a step to help us get to a better place. However, research shows that we often, inaccurately, think that the way things are now is

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
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Leadership

Become a master of persuasion

The ability to persuade is perhaps the most significant skill that will give you a competitive edge professionally and make you successful. Persuasion is not a "soft skill"; it is a fundamental skill

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Ways smart people undermine their success

At most jobs, you need more than raw intelligence to get ahead. And if smarts is your strength, only focusing on your greatest strength, rather than also addressing your weaknesses, tends to be

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Celebrate the incomplete-human-leader

Drop the myth of the complete leader at the top who's got it all figured out. Only when leaders embrace seeing themselves as incomplete are they be able to make up for their

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
2 min read
Purpose

Purpose is the key to motivation

It's hard to imagine how employees can perform if they don't understand your company's purpose. How can they come to work every day ready to further the business if they don't know what

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Productivity

Stop wasting your time

Overwhelmed is the new normal. No matter the job, we all end up with a lot more work over time, and the only way to get out of it is to redesign your

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
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Leadership

Great leaders don't give advice

People don't leave jobs; they leave their leader, and micromanagement usually has something to do with it. Effective leaders are coaches, and instead of teaching people, they guide others to arrive at their

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Growth

Solving for how work is done tomorrow

If you allow people the opportunity to learn something new or to show their craft, they will give you their best work. The magic is in providing the opportunity. Often managers have little

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Growth

Measure quality of life over GDP

If the goal of all our collective activities is to have a more equitable society that is economically thriving and offering citizens a meaningful quality of life, then we need to stop measuring

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Purpose

Learn how to be happier

Happiness doesn't just show up one day; it comes from your actions. There is the transient type that comes and goes, fed by things like a walk in a park, spending time with

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
2 min read
Technology

How to get digital transformation right

Digital transformation work for organizations where leaders focus on changing the mindset of the organizational culture and processes before they decide what digital tools to use and how to use them. Below are

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Leadership

Promote those who can get you where you want to go

Leaders often (erroneously) assume that attributes that have made someone successful so far will continue to make them successful in a more significant role. The secret to selecting great leaders is to try

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Growth

Mentor the person, not their career

Aspiring leaders need more and better mentoring than 'they're getting today. Mentoring also needs to extend beyond a current career to be more effective in helping people fulfill their true full potential. Mentoring

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
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Self-awareness

Decisions determine our reality

The decisions we make determine our reality, and we make about 2,000 of them every waking hour, so inevitably, we all make some poor decisions every single day. But if we are

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
2 min read
Purpose

Find meaning in your work

Setting happiness as your primary goal for work can make you end up feeling the opposite because happiness (like all emotions) is a fleeting state, not a permanent one. Instead, find meaning in

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Resilience

Pacing and perseverance

In a marathon, pacing and perseverance are paramount. Few companies think critically about the strategic principles needed to endure or have the foresight to temper their pace in anticipation of the long journey

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Growth

Take control of your career development

Chances are your boss doesn't take the time to think through how best to deploy your talents properly. Therefore, you have to take control of your career planning to ensure you're putting yourself

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Expectations

Inspiring accountability

Accountability is not about taking the blame when something goes wrong. Accountability is about delivering on commitments. It's taking initiative with follow-through, and assuming responsibility for an outcome (not just a set of

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
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