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What Breaks Companies: Five Predictable Moments
January 31, 2026
Every organization I work with, no matter how successful, eventually reaches a moment when what used to work stops working. It’s not because they lost their...
Seven Quiet Habits That Create Clarity.
January 24, 2026
Clarity is not a personality trait.It’s not confidence.It’s not certainty. Clarity is a practice. Most leaders I work with aren’t confused because they lack...
Complexity is a beast.
January 17, 2026
Most people don’t fall apart because they’re weak. They fall apart because their life gets bigger than their clarity. At first, that feels like success. More...
The Two-Consequence Rule.
January 10, 2026
Every real decision carries two consequences with it. One hits the business.The other hits your family. We get gold stars, promotions and atta-boys-and-girls...
Clarity. Sweet Clarity.
January 3, 2026
Most leadership problems aren’t leadership problems. They’re clarity problems. We pretend they’re strategy issues. Or people issues. Or execution issues. Or...
A quiet reminder.
December 14, 2025
There comes a point in every life when the body starts speaking up. Not loudly at first. Just a little bark here. A twinge there. A tightness you can’t...
The Hardest Work You’ll Ever Do.
December 9, 2025
I’ve learned there’s a real paradox at the heart of what it means to be a leader (that most of us have to learn the hard way): The deeper work of leading has...
Don't look back with anger.
December 1, 2025
December has a way of telling the truth. It invites us to quietly and firmly pay attention to the life we’re actually living, not the one we’re performing,...
Giving thanks.
November 26, 2025
I’ve spent a lot of my life running fast toward a future I thought I wanted. Tons of goals, lots of work, and heaps of pressure. It wasn’t the work that...
Dream again.
November 23, 2025
November is where the year exhales.The noise starts to quiet. The rush slows down just enough for the truth to catch up. This is the month between what was...
The calm in the storm.
November 20, 2025
Here’s something I’ve learned the hard way:you can’t fix someone else’s emotional instability. Nope, amigo. You can only manage your own. It’s one of the...
Field Notes: Don’t Outgrow Your Soul
November 13, 2025
Every business leader wants growth, that is, until growth starts to change the feel of the place. Every company eventually hits a moment when the seams start...
My two cents.
November 9, 2025
I’ve noticed something in myself lately, and in a lot of the leaders I coach. When a conversation drifts off course, when someone shares something half-baked...
Outside insight.
November 2, 2025
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched it happen. The leader sits at the head of the table, asks for honest feedback, and the room goes quiet. Heads...
Reflect. Dream. Plan.
October 28, 2025
How you finish this year is how you’ll start the next one. That’s not a motivational poster. It’s physics. Momentum doesn’t care about your intentions, it...
Field Notes: The Weight and Gift of Letting Go.
October 23, 2025
This past month I’ve been with three different leaders, all standing in that strange space between what was and what needs to be. One executive had to make...
Coaching is a Multiplier.
October 18, 2025
Leadership isn’t addition. It’s multiplication. When you grow, you don’t just get better, you make everyone around you better. That’s the multiplier effect....
Life moves through us.
October 11, 2025
I just got back from an overseas trip with a friend. When I travel, I’m reminded how little control I actually have and how freeing that can be. Flights get...
Just breathe.
October 2, 2025
Courage doesn’t arrive all at once. It’s not something you can hoard, like jars of my mom’s strawberry preserves in her pantry, or wads of cash in the bank....
The Hero Trap.
September 28, 2025
Leaders love to play the hero. We swoop in, cape flapping, to save the day. It feels noble. It feels productive. It feels like we’re proving our worth. And,...
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