by Florin Lungu | Dec 27, 2025 | Leadership Development, Personal Growth, Self-leadership
Personal Note I’ve been thinking about 2026 for a while now, and one question keeps resurfacing for me. It came up earlier this year at Live2Lead Sweden, when John Maxwell shared something deceptively simple. He said that most leaders spend their time asking,...
by Florin Lungu | Oct 13, 2025 | Coaching & Mentoring, Leadership Development, Team Dynamics & Culture
Imagine you walk into a room where the air feels alive with ideas. Not a boardroom filled with stiff chairs and long presentations. But a table – round, inviting, filled with coffee cups, notebooks, and people leaning in. The energy is different here. People...
by Florin Lungu | Sep 14, 2025 | Focus, Leadership Development, Leading for Performance
Let’s start with the lie. If you’re a tech or engineering leader claiming, “I just don’t have enough time,” you’re focusing on the wrong problem. Time isn’t your bottleneck. Focus is. Most of what consumes your week doesn’t deserve your attention. But it still gets it...
by Florin Lungu | Sep 13, 2025 | Leadership Development, Leadership Strategies, Self-leadership
If your beliefs stay the same, your leadership won’t survive the AI era. A few weeks ago, I sat across from a CTO who’s led teams longer than some of his engineers have been alive. Sharp thinker. Humble. Respected. But his voice got quiet when he said: “We’ve...
by Florin Lungu | Aug 8, 2025 | Focus, Leadership Development, Leading for Performance
What do you drop when everything feels urgent? I once worked with a senior product lead (we’ll call her Anna) who had 14 major items on her plate. All of them tagged as critical. All of them “must-win” by quarter-end. No joke. She was skipping lunch to stay ahead of...
by Florin Lungu | May 27, 2025 | Coaching & Mentoring, Leadership Development, Trust
A while ago, I worked with a leader. He didn’t understand why his team seemed… disengaged. He had given them autonomy. He’d challenged them to hit clear targets. He was transparent, efficient, and focused on results. But despite delivering solid outcomes, the energy...
