<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Anna Ortynska]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anna Ortynska Coaching & Consulting]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:03:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ortynska.com/uk/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[It's All About Power]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Anna Ortynska The sooner we accept that everyone in an organization is seeking power, the more consciously we'll be able to use it for ourselves and for others. Wanting power is supposed to be something you don't admit. You can want impact, influence, legacy, meaningful work — all of that is fine, respectable even. But power? That's for the ambitious ones.  The ones who play games while the rest of us just try to get good work done. I believed this for a long time. Then I spent twelve...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/it-s-all-about-power</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a197b7f145da5e3830941b2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 11:51:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/16b674_29b2b3005efe454891df4ac9bad660f5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build a New Identity -  Results Will Follow]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Anna Ortynska A few years ago, I worked with a brilliant project manager who had just been offered a partnership. On paper, it was a done deal. She had the track record, the trust of the founders, and the technical team. And for six months, she quietly failed at the new role while doing the old one beautifully. She kept showing up as the best executor in the house: tickets closed, deadlines met, fires put out. The problem was that nobody needed her to be the best executor anymore. They...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/build-a-new-identity-results-will-follow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0eeace40b8a446f99b4c3e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 11:44:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/16b674_5005b1eee75e476d8ca96930055e6608~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transformational Leadership Style vs Operational Dependency: Shifting from Involvement to Effective Control]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Anna Ortynska Most founders believe they are maintaining control when, in reality, they are compensating for the absence of structure. Over time, the company becomes so dependent on the founder’s constant involvement that their presence starts to feel synonymous with leadership itself. They sit in every important meeting, approve every meaningful decision, stay involved in every escalation, and remain the person everyone turns to when something becomes uncertain. From the inside, this...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/transformational-leadership-style-vs-operational-dependency</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0ee7012b5c18841b92fefe</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:20:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/16b674_55cac0605d17461a83bbe8aba616fde1~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consultants Сan’t Fix Your Business ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why external expertise doesn't guarantee results and what actually does. by Anna Ortynska Most consulting engagements fail before the work actually starts. I've watched this from both sides of the table. Twelve years inside a corporate world, watching consultants come and go - some left a mark, most left a deck. Now that I'm a consultant, the patterns I noticed from the inside are the same ones that decide… A consultant isn't there to fix your business. Most companies wouldn't put it this way...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/consultants-%D1%81an-t-fix-your-business</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fb249f7c50fb68b37dfb84</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:25:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/16b674_1779301cb8624b0da6990c5102b8301d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designing Systems That Sustain Performance Beyond the Founder  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why task tracking fails and what actually makes progress visible by Anna Ortynska Most companies do not have an effort problem, because people are working hard, teams are consistently busy, and calendars are fully packed with meetings, deadlines, and deliverables. The real issue becomes visible when you ask a much simpler but far more important question: are we actually moving forward as a business? And surprisingly often, there is no clear or confident answer to that question. This is...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/designing-systems-that-sustain-performance-beyond-the-founder</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f0a910ddc36f176231ad13</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:09:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/16b674_ee3fecd5e1884f858f94be2677334cba~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bias Awareness Isn't the Fix. The System Is]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Anna Ortynska Last week I wrote about five biases that quietly distort leadership decisions. There's a logical question that follows any conversation like this, and it's usually the same one: "Okay. So what do we actually do about it?" The answer most people expect is: read more, train more, reflect more. But you can't read your way out of bias. You can't train your way out either. Two weeks after a "cognitive biases in leadership" workshop, confirmation bias is back at the table, wearing...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/bias-awareness-isn-t-the-fix-the-system-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69eb3d69d06bed7d1aa3464d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:31:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/16b674_90b5ef1ce204464dae94d746bbef2a8e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a Skill - And Here Are 4 Ways to Improve It]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Anna Ortynska In consulting, listening is often treated as a soft skill. Something you either “have” or you “don’t.” In reality, it’s a core business capability because most strategic mistakes don’t happen due to lack of intelligence or data — they happen because leaders and consultants solve the wrong problem. And more often than not, that starts with not really hearing what’s actually being said. Early in my career, I thought I was a strong listener. I asked the right questions. I took...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/listening-is-a-skill</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ef406024f9d3e5cd6cee40</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:08:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/16b674_9c3fc20639a74ecea1ce10f642d9086e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unmasking Cognitive Biases: Transforming Leadership for Sustainable Growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding Cognitive Biases in Leadership I once watched a CEO spend an entire quarterly review praising a product line that was bleeding money. Everyone in the room had the data. The dashboards were on the screen. But the CEO had championed this product from the start, and so the numbers somehow didn't register. They just... slid off. Like rain off a windshield. After the meeting, three directors stood in a hallway and agreed the product should be sunsetted. None of them said a word...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/the-9-leadership-biases-that-are-quietly-killing-your-business</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e601688b2f11ff8e55c852</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:24:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/16b674_3a314293848d4250ab9d33252cbe3758~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Strategy Fails Without Operational Structure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strategy without ownership is noise. By Anna Ortynska I've spent many years walking into organizations that had beautiful strategies and failed execution. Fortune 500 companies, IT startups, healthcare systems, educational organizations - industries changed, the problem remained the same. I learned one important thing from that  - most strategies don't fail because they're incorrect or designed unprofessionally - they fail because nobody built the operating system to make them happen. Failure...]]></description><link>https://www.ortynska.com/post/why-strategy-fails-without-operational-structure</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d6252b81d59fce7b0e5f3c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:20:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2b074052bbd24b6385f01ef23168ab53.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Ortynska</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>