THE WEEKENDER · 18 MIN LISTEN Welcome to the first Weekender! Each weekend I’ll send you one episode picked to help with something leaders are working through right now. It takes about as long as a coffee or a walk, and you can switch it off any time at the bottom of this email. When revenue targets start to look out of reach, most CEOs lean harder on the number. More forecast reviews, more questions about the gap, more pressure to find revenue. What comes back is a week of explanations, and...
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The Leadership Letter by Phil Hayes-St Clair The answers were never the jobThe big problem with how you lead READ ON PHILHSC.COM • 5 MINUTE READ • 14 OCTOBER, 2026 THE CEO LAB - GROUP COACHINGSolve what's holding your business backJoin five other CEOs working on the problems in front of them. One group call and one 1:1 with me each week for six weeks, then an alumni group you can call on for the rest of your career. SEE THE CLASS DATES → 1:1 CEO COACHING You didn't work this hard to feel this...
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The Leadership Letter by Phil Hayes-St Clair Finding time to breatheThe place to go is closer than you think READ ON PHILHSC.COM • 5 MINUTE READ • 24 SEPT, 2026 THE CEO LAB - GROUP COACHINGSolve what's holding your business backJoin five other CEOs working on the problems in front of them. One group call and one 1:1 with me each week for six weeks, then an alumni group you can call on for the rest of your career. SEE THE CLASS DATES → 1:1 CEO COACHING You didn't work this hard to feel this...
24 days ago • 6 min read
The Leadership Letter by Phil Hayes-St Clair Being surrounded by supportersThe big problem with going it alone READ ON PHILHSC.COM • 4 MINUTE READ • 16 SEPT, 2026 THE CEO LAB - GROUP COACHINGSolve what's holding your business backJoin five other CEOs working on the problems in front of them. One group call and one 1:1 with me each week for six weeks, then an alumni group you can call on for the rest of your career. SEE THE CLASS DATES → 1:1 CEO COACHING You didn't work this hard to feel this...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
The Leadership Letter is a reader-supported publication. If you enjoyed it, forward it to a friend. Thank you! -- Phil Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more. READ TIME: 6 MINUTES | 9 SEPTEMBER, 2026 | READ ON PHILHSC.COM In January 1995, a coach collapsed on a practice court at the Australian Open. His name was Tim Gullikson. He had been having seizures the previous year, and neurologists in Germany had found a blood clot in his brain and put the attacks down to a heart defect but he...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more. READ TIME: 6 MINUTES | 2 SEPTEMBER, 2026 | READ ON PHILHSC.COM I'd like to share a hunch that's not fully formed, and I'd love your thoughts, so let me set the scene. As a CEO I used to think a lot about the forces that were creating unnecessary drag across my organisation. And by drag I was looking for places where a lack of clarity existed. My hypothesis was simple: The more clarity you can give your team, the more productive they can be with...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
The Leadership Letter is a reader-supported publication. If you enjoyed it, forward it to a friend. Thank you! -- Phil. Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more. READ TIME: 7 MINUTES | 26 AUGUST, 2026 | READ ON PHILHSC.COM On 6 February 2018, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. I watched the livestream in awe. Its 27 Merlin engines created more than five million pounds of thrust to lift this massive spacecraft into space. There was a good chance it would end in a...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
The Leadership Letter is a reader-supported publication. If you enjoyed it, forward it to a friend. Thank you! -- Phil. Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more. READ TIME: 7 MINUTES | 19 AUGUST, 2026 | READ ON PHILHSC.COM I had been in that elevator 100 times before. The doors opened and 50 team members started cheering. A red carpet rolled out in front of me across the office floor. I walked along it with no idea what was happening until someone near the back said, "That’s not him."...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more. READ TIME: 8 MINUTES | 12 AUGUST, 2026 | READ ON PHILHSC.COM Have I pushed too hard? That thought arrived the moment the Senior Vice President of diagnostics told me my urgency was making him uncomfortable. I was negotiating access to his platform for Drop Bio Health, and he was used to enterprise customers who moved at his pace and danced his corporate dance. Without that platform we didn’t have a business. In biotech, platforms are the tools,...
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