The bread that cannot be rushed

Thursday evening I start the dough process. Not because I have to. Because something in me needs to. There is a particular ritual to sourdough that I have come to understand is about far more than bread. You begin with a living starter. Genuinely alive. Fed and tended...

What are you afraid of

I want to tell you something that took me an embarrassingly long time to understand. The Monday dread we talked about on Day 1 is not really about Monday. The hollow feeling on the audit from Day 2 [what fills you]is not really about the job. The drift from Africa...

You’re leaving money on the table

The freelancer who charges too little. The consultant who apologizes before quoting. The executive who caves before the client pushes back. This isn’t humility. It’s self-sabotage dressed up as modesty. Imposter syndrome is nearly universal. A landmark...

Skip the hype. Buy the ingredients

We live in an era of abundance. More tools, more frameworks, more consultants, more conferences promising transformation. And yet, most organizations are no more fundamentally healthy than they were before they bought it all. The problem is not information. We have...

Change hurts less than stagnation

We announce the change and assume the work is done. It never is. Change has a curve. John Fisher formalized it. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross described its emotional architecture long before business adopted the concept. The curve moves through denial, resistance,...