Win the room

“What’s our strategy again?” I asked this question to three different teams last week. Three different companies. Three different industries. Similar responses: awkward silence, vague generalities, and conflicting answers. In one manufacturing...

Mental systems

We complain about lacking time, but what we really lack are effective systems. Your morning routine—brushing teeth, getting dressed—happens without deliberation. No decision fatigue. Yet that email sitting in your inbox? You read, close, reopen, agonize, and postpone....

Who’s in that seat?

Ask a leadership team which roles they’d hesitate to refill if someone quit tomorrow—and the room often goes quiet. Not because they don’t know. But saying it out loud means confronting a harsh truth: someone on the team isn’t essential. And that’s not just their...

Chasing butterflies

Those butterflies – they’re messengers. Not warning signals. They don’t say “run away.” They whisper, “Pay attention, this matters.” Most people avoid this feeling. They’ve crafted a comfortable existence where...

Being the adult

When do the adults need to show up? While we cannot force others to change until they are ready (see the blog, “When Change Happens”), and we must accept that reality, there are situations where, as an adult, you are responsible for making changes to...