The Catalyst
Learn the leadership perspectives, frameworks, and mental models you need to be successful.
Trust is More than a Vibe
Rich in time! Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note Happy Monday! Several people have recommended that I read Sahil Bloom’s book, “The Five Types of Wealth.” This is timely because I’m evaluating various paths that my independent career could take. I...
Your GPS Recalculates. Do You?
Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note Hey y’all, Do you know your enneagram number? I’d heard about enneagrams before, but had never learned my own. Last week the book “The Road Back to You” popped out to me on my Kindle backlog, so I started reading it....
The hard part isn’t thinking, it’s thinking around others.
Famous image from 1936 showing a defiant man not saluting, despite the entire crowd doing so. Courage. Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note I started a podcast experiment with a partner, Tory Wobber (see her newly launched newsletter here). We’ve recorded...
Feel like an imposter? Here's the process I use.
Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note Hello and Happy Monday! This week I was invited to one of the “party suites” for the Texas Stars minor league hockey team. I met some cool new folks - and was also surprised to see a couple previous attendees to my...
It’s Not Becky. It’s Your Amygdala.
Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note Happy Monday! I realized over the weekend that I shared my new business with you all, but didn’t go into exactly what I was doing. Let’s fix that today! I divide Group 18 into four separate business lines: 1 -...
Bad Decisions Can Masquerade as Good Ones
Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note Happy Monday! I noticed last week that I'm beginning to lose track of time. I was watering my new tomato plants in the mid-morning, and my kids were home, so I thought about going to the plant nursery. I better check...
Your Team Might Be Scared of Your Eyebrows 😳
Dogs at the "dog park" at the HumanX conference. Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note I’m back home in Austin! Time will tell if the expense was worth it, but there was a lot of upside in attending the HumanX conference last week. - I connected with some...
Chomp chomp chomp, like a failure-eating Pac-Man
Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note Happy Monday, and greetings from Las Vegas! I’m super excited to share that I recently left Atlassian, my employer of the last 10+ years, to start my entrepreneurial journey. I’m grateful for my time at Atlassian,...
"We're the Bosses"
Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note Hey there, and Happy Monday! There are a few windows of time in Austin where the weather is nice, and the mosquitos haven't arrived yet. At least around my house, now is one of those times. This past week it's been...
Your body and mind are not like a cracker
Welcome to the "The Catalyst," Kevin Noble's weekly newsletter about becoming a more effective leader. Past newsletters can be found online here. If you enjoy this newsletter please forward it to a friend! If you're that cool friend, sign up for the newsletter here 🤗 Quick Note Hey there! Last week I attended a sponsored business dinner with a group of folks from the Operator’s Guild, a community I joined at the end of last year. The Operator’s Guild is for senior operations and finance...