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Mathias Meyer

@mathiasmeyer.co
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Founding partner & executive coach at and author of @intentionalorganization.com. Aspiring writer. Fermentation enthusiast. Amateur horticulturist. Wine lover 🌱 intentionalorganization.com mathiasmeyer.co paperplanes.de

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 06/10/2026
The video for my ldx NYC talk was posted, I'm proud of this one leaddev.com/management/t...
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The manager's path in the age of AI
Which management skills AI is genuinely changing, which stay non-negotiable, and how to tell the difference.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 02/10/2026
Amsterdam doesn't disappoint. Last time I was here for a Taylor Swift concert. This week I was in town for a conference. Gotta make sure to always plan in some time to enjoy the chill vibes.
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The Intentional Organization @intentionalorganization.com · 24/09/2026
New post from @saralouhicks.com about running effective and productive offsites. The title "Shoulder to Shoulder" is about showing up together, as if walking the same road, at the same pace, taking on some of the same risk. It's how Sara and @mathiasmeyer.co showed up to their own company offsite.
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Shoulder to Shoulder | The Intentional Organization
This post connects its title to Jerry Colonna's "shoulder to shoulder" leadership posture, then shows how Sara and Mathias used it at their own offsite by getting vulnerable with their team first. The...
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 20/09/2026
Don't really have a lot to add to what Kellan wrote up here on middle managers. Except I had to write 15-18 pages for my term paper, so I had to. It's been a fun research project that I hope to turn into some less scientific writing, tho Kellan already did the work: laughingmeme.org/2026/09/14/m...
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Managers Are Catalysts
As an industry, we like to shout a lot about experiments when we kick them off, all confident swagger that this time our superior intellects have landed from first principles on the correct reimaginin...
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 16/09/2026
I'm currently working on my term paper on how AI reshapes the role of middle managers after I've been peppered with questions about what I think of the great flattening. Couldn't ask for a better and more timely conclusion to my paper: www.businessinsider.com/meta-asks-so...
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Meta is asking some of its employees to become managers again in a new reorg
Meta is asking some Applied AI staff to move from individual contributor roles back into management after the company flattened teams.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 30/08/2026
Gotta say beyond the health benefits of growing your own food and of tending to a garden, what I appreciate so much is the getaway from technology. AI and tech are useless to me in this little haven. And maybe it’s the whole point of having a garden to have a reason to step away.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 30/08/2026
After two years of late frost leaving our fruit trees fruitless, this has been an absolute banger of a harvest. The tree was so laden with fruit we had to bind branches together for support. The peaches aren’t the greatest for eating, though they are tasty, but make for excellent jam or compote.
So many ripe peaches, freshly harvested.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 27/08/2026
Things I never thought I'd talk about in public: how kitchen knives and leadership are connected. Also, we talk about cutting our thumbs. Hands down, good knives are my favourite tool in the kitchen. Despite the cuts. intentionalorganization.com/podcast/s1e5...
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S1E5: Kitchen Knives | The Intentional Organization
What do sharp knives, dull knives, and knife guys named Gary have to do with good management? In this episode, Sara and Mathias trade cooking stories and kitchen mishaps on the way to a bigger point: ...
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 26/08/2026
I was recently asked what the most important tool is for me when working as a CTO. Mulling the answer over, I realised it's not software or any particular way of doing things. It was much simpler than that: the written word. I elaborate on this more over here: mathiasmeyer.co/whats-your-m...
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What’s Your Most Important Tool as a CTO?
When we think of tools, we think of software. But the most productive and effective tool in a CTO's toolkit doesn't cost anything, only time and care.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 22/08/2026
I wrote about how AI notetaking tools only appear to make meetings better when they really tend to exacerbate meeting culture that are unhealthy in the first place: intentionalorganization.com/journal/ai-m...
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The AI Meeting Singularity | The Intentional Organization
AI note taking tools are supposed to make your meetings more effective, but are they really making them better? The illusion of notes is that you can easily go back any time and look at what everyone ...
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 10/08/2026
A good reminder that not everyone cares about AI: www.wired.com/story/why-no...
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Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026
AI continues to feel like an ouroboros to me, the snake that bites its own tail. Whatever gains are perceived/assumed/purported are then outweighed by the increased effort required to manage whatever those gains product as output.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/08/2026
What happens when you don’t attend to the garden for a week or two. Zukes reach ginormous sizes and become inedible. The heaviest clocks in at about 3kg. Diner mug for scale. It is magical though, just how much energy plants put into producing fruit like these.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 21/07/2026
Nothing quite like ending a day of research and meetings with a swim in a lake.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 19/07/2026
I've written a whole bunch of postcards on my recent trips and it's been genuinely fun and also slight puzzling to see all the responses I've gotten from folks receiving them. It's usually a photo of the card, sometimes receivers included, together with a thank you note.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 25/02/2026
Wherein I mull over the question "Did you use any AI while writing your book?" and how it relates to our own thriving for creative output, enjoying the process and progress of writing, and why we worked on a book for four and a half years. mathiasmeyer.co/this-book-is...
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This Book is a 100% Genuine Human Creation
"Did you use AI in creating this book?" is a question that I get more often than I'm comfortable with. It does sting, but why is that? There's a deeper sense in creating a book, in the process of writ...
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 21/01/2026
Gotta be honest, I've been waiting for this ever since I saw the movie for the first time (seen many times since). A real shame, Mira's isn't named "Spice Queen"
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 09/12/2025
Beetroot is the most underrated vegetable. Followed by aubergine (I refuse to call it eggplant). Maybe Brussels sprouts should be on that list too.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 25/09/2025
"Genuinely the most German thing I've ever seen." Hard agree with John Oliver here. Bernd is me and I am Bernd. www.reddit.com/r/fernsehen/...
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From the fernsehen community on Reddit: Bernd das Brot bei Last Week Tonight!
Explore this post and more from the fernsehen community
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 16/08/2025
Proper tomato harvest today, Black Russian and Cœur de bœuf. Last couple of hot days have done magic in the greenhouse. Going to be a feast.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 15/08/2025
When in doubt, go for the Riesling. Excerpts from a little solo wine trip through Germany (Unstrut, Lower Franconia, Black Forest, Mosel, Saale) and Alsace that I was on over the past nine days.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 04/08/2025
Whenever I'm at Dussmann I like to sneak signed bookmarks and stickers into the copies of our book @intentionalorganization.com, hoping it brightens someone's day when they pick up a copy 😃
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 27/07/2025
Harvest season continues. Zucchinis are growing well this year (though some of the blossoms have also fallen prey to the weeks of rain), tomatoes are ripening nicely, albeit taking on too much water:
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 06/07/2025
First season (this is our fifth season growing veg overall) that we've been successful growing cauliflower. Going straight to the oven for dinner tonight!
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 02/07/2025
Wrote a lil' something about how meetings take on a life of their own in many organisations, whether they're useful/productive or not, and what can be done to fix it. Founders and executives take note!
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 26/06/2025
Had a splendid time in London last week at @leaddev.com's LDX3 event. @saralouhicks.com and I got to give a joint talk in front of 900 people. We had a stockpile of books to get into people's hands and sign them. And we visited and appreciate our book on shelf at Dussmann in Berlin!
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 26/06/2025
There are some upsides to walking home on a warm summer evening in Berlin.
Sunset view of the Spree from Oberbaumbrücke in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
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The Intentional Organization @intentionalorganization.com · 21/06/2025
Work on your handoffs! Here’s a post from @mathiasmeyer.co and @saralouhicks.com about batons and intentional communication. Teams who communicate well, collaborate well! leaddev.com/communicatio...
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The key to good communication? Don’t drop the baton
Why timing, focus, and setting clear expectations are the keys to good communication.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 12/05/2025
What I'm really wondering after watching Thunderbolts the first time around is: what is happening to that guinea pig? Is it their new (in)official mascot? Is it joining the team? Maybe the second viewing today will reveal more?
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 26/04/2025
Obligatory book selfie at Dussmann's Kulturkaufhaus, my favourite English book store in Berlin, where our book is now in stock! 😍
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Sara Hicks @saralouhicks.com · 09/04/2025
A dear friend received our book yesterday and shared this photo and message: “I prayed that many readers of your book may benefit from the wisdom of both authors.” 🥹❤️🙏
The book, “The Intentional Organization,” is sitting on top of an altar surrounded by spiritual objects with smoke from an incense visible in the air.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 09/04/2025
We love books so much, we made a super-limited run of pleather hand-bound books I had made at a local bookbinding shop. All done by hand. Custom stamp for the embossed gold printing. It's beautiful and feels so buttery soft.
Front cover of a pleather-bound, limited-run version of the book "The Intentional Organization" by Sara Hicks & Mathias Meyer.Back cover of a pleather-bound, limited-run version of the book "The Intentional Organization" by Sara Hicks & Mathias MeyerSpine of a pleather-bound, limited-run version of the book "The Intentional Organization" by Sara Hicks & Mathias Meyer
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Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 09/04/2025
@mathiasmeyer.co herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉
Pink book cover with stark-contrast sun/shadow stripes diagonally across it

The Intentional
Organization
A Leadership and
Management Guide
Sara Hicks
Mathias Meyer
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 08/04/2025
How far are we from the 100x CEO? Or are we already there?
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 07/04/2025
Oh it's just me surrounded by rye whiskey barrels at the Stork Club Distillery just outside of Berlin. Checking up on the merchandise, so to speak
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 06/04/2025
Having just finished a book and enjoying the process of writing and creating something from an empty cursor, this part of the article deeply resonates. www.theverge.com/apps/642131/...
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 01/04/2025
“It’s the most beautiful business book I’ve ever seen,” said a person I was meeting the other day as I held up our book. It’s not just dense and actionable, the kind of book on management and leadership we wanted to see in the world, we wanted to make it visually pleasing, inside and out.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 25/03/2025
So happy and excited that our book "The Intentional Organization" is available for preorder, shipping starting on April 8! Been such joy to hold it in our hands for the first time and sign the first copies for friends, families, and our early reviewers! intentionalorganization.com/journal/we-w...
Several stacks of copies of the book "The Intentional Organization."
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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 19/03/2025
Looking forward to reading @mathiasmeyer.co and @saralouhicks.com's new book "The Intentional Organisation": intentionalorganization.com/book/
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The Book | The Intentional Organization
The Intentional Organization is for entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, managers, business owners, employees, and humans who are striving to find and cultivate meaning in their work and in their lives...
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 10/03/2025
What a day! @saralouhicks.com's and my book "The Intentional Organization" is ready for preorders now. Read more about how our cover came to be and also go preorder! intentionalorganization.com/journal/we-w...
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We Wrote A Book: It's Available For Preorders! | The Intentional Organization
Back in 2020, we started working on a book to help other founders, executives, and senior leaders on their journey in management. Today we're thrilled to announce that the book is finally available fo...
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Sara Hicks @saralouhicks.com · 26/02/2025
I’m excited to be speaking with @mathiasmeyer.co at LDX3 London 🇬🇧 this year! Our talk will explore habits, principles, and frameworks to foster healthy communication patterns for teams. A team that communicates well collaborates well! 🌟 leaddev.com/leaddev-lond... #LDX3 @leaddev.com
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 01/02/2025
Nothing's sacred anymore: www.theverge.com/news/604509/...
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Microsoft Paint is getting a Copilot button, too
Copilot is just everywhere these days.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 29/01/2025
There’s little in a writer's life that rivals the thrill, excitement, despair, and the endless possibilities (and the challenge of exploring them) as an empty page in a notebook or a blinking cursor on a new and empty text file.
An open notebook with an empty page and a fountain pen next to it.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 23/01/2025
In my latest article, I explore the different personas of the CTO role. The question of what the CTO's role is now and what it should be comes up in my coaching practice constantly. Herein I dissect how you can find better answers to this question: intentionalorganization.com/journal/what...
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 25/12/2024
Had been on a long break from making sourdough and made a decent comeback with this loaf. First one in a long time that I made in a dutch oven. With gratuitous landscaping work going on in the background.
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Mathias Meyer @mathiasmeyer.co · 18/12/2024
It's been more than six years since @saralouhicks.com and I started a recurring one-on-one meeting that's kept us connected across many time zones. It's also kept us focused and engaged on our book which is this close to being finished! www.paperplanes.de/2024/12/18/s...
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Six Years of One-on-Ones
More than six years ago, I was looking for a new role. Little did I know that what I ended up finding was a friend and business partner with whom I’ve been having a regular standing one-on-one from da...
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