#01 Philipp Heiler – humble leadership Destination Leadership

In this episode, I am interviewing Philipp Heiler, doctor & co-founder of brainboost.

- Philipp’s passion about the brain, people’s quality of life and how people can achieve their goals in life
- What neurofeedback is & how you can train your brain
- How not following the „typical“ doctor’s path was his first act of leadership
- How he sees good leadership as humble leadership: “dream arrogant, but act humble“
- How Philipp emptying out the dishwasher each morning is for him an example for humble leadership – don’t be too snobby for doing stuff like emptying dishwasher or taking out the trash
- How standing in front if his team when there is a problem is part of his leadership style
- How delegation was one of the main challenges when growing the business, but why setting time aside to teach someone to do a task rather than just tossing tasks at people is important to him
- How the investment into a team Christmas party early on was so valuable at this early stage of the company
- How he cherry-picks from different rolemodels
- How he plays with the balance between tech-stuff and meditation and how that relates to the team
- How he deals with the challenge that the teams exists of people with very different professional backgrounds and thus different ways of working – and especially how a team development workshop on what everyone does and how do they see themselves in the team helped the team to grow
- How taking a rather “crappy” place in the office can also be seen as act of humble leadership
- How giving leaders an extra second before they react could eliminate all misunderstandings and make a difference in communication