Distillations
Douglas ColeAn open journal of exploration and growth
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 120 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | a year ago |
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Gone Fishing
As a New Year resolution for 2025, and after 115 editions as of today, I’ve decided to pause the ‘Distillations’ blog indefinitely.
Let’s be clear: I love this weekly writing ritual. It’s a powerful mechanism to crystallize thought and bol...
Letting Go
Every year I try to bring a slightly different angle to the new year resolution ritual. This time around I'm contemplating a set of questions I'll share below. Here's a brief description of how I got to them and why they resonated.
The pr...
Leadership Interview Strategy
Lately I’ve been observing leadership interviews and gathering lessons from them. Perhaps I can be of service to others, knowing there's a predictable uptick in job changes this time of the year (they’re generally 55% higher in January).
L...
Repeatable Operating System
Former Stripe executive Clair Hughes Johnson once described a moment of professional self-discovery. She was talking to a banker who works with many of the world's most successful companies, and he shared his favorite interview question for...
The Wall St Journal Test
Kim (not her real name) recalls the moment she and her colleagues lost faith in the company that was allegedly partnering with them.
It was a video call and the partner firm's project lead was sharing his screen. At a certain point he had...
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I lead a sales team at LinkedIn, advise start-up accelerators in Canada and the US, and I’m a university lecturer at The Rotman School of Management and The Schulich Executive Education Centre in Toronto.
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