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Leadership Reflection: Mirror-Book, Compass, Storm

Real tech mentoring topics

Jan 11 • Adrian Stanek

Recent posts

The Three-Gear Life: Rest, Recreation, Work

How to become real creators, professionals and happy humans.

Jan 5 • Adrian Stanek

Potential Is Real, Dreamery Is Comfortable

A Leadership Example of How To Focus On Your Signals

Jan 2 • Adrian Stanek

Teams Drift Apart by Default

A 5-minute reset for tech leaders who want one team, real inclusion, and shipping without silent fragmentation.

Dec 29, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

Adrian Stanek

Adrian Stanek

Clarity, systems, and leadership — from a founder and engineering leader building teams, products, and a life with intention.

Podcasts

Worth Following – Podcast by Adrian Stanek

Focus + Feedback Loops

Recommendations

groCTO by typo

groCTO

Stoic Productivity Letter

Stoic Productivity Letter

Stoic Productivity

Product Management IRL

Product Management IRL

Amy Mitchell

Corporate Jungle

Corporate Jungle

Victoria

Tobi’s Tidbits of Tyranny

Tobi’s Tidbits of Tyranny

Tobias Mende

Worth Following – Podcast by Adrian Stanek

6:22

Focus + Feedback Loops

Why I Practise Archery As a Software Developer & Entrepreneur

Jan 3 • Adrian Stanek

Do you have Clarity in your Life?

Watch now | Why a clear vision and path is so important

Nov 12, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

6:32

Discipline Is Not Optional – It’s the Foundation of Real Leadership

Listen now | It’s the Foundation of Real Leadership

Nov 12, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

2:42:30

Self-Control is Leadership

What is discipline?

Oct 30, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

4:58

Somewhere along the way, we lost the ability to dream

Leadership is based on the vision and mission

Oct 27, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

4:23

The Stoic Leader

How much silence do leaders really need?

"I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind." M.Aurelius B.IV.3

Nov 25, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

The Fortress vs. The Cell

How Stoic Leaders Stay Present Instead of Numbing Out

Nov 20, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

Clarity Is Not Found — It Is Created

A Post About Clarity, How to Reach It, and Why Most Leaders Struggle to Get There

Nov 14, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

What Stoicism Teaches About Real Leadership

Nov 11, 2025 • Adrian Stanek

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