The container or the contents

The debate misses the point entirely. Some people dismiss audiobooks as “not real reading.” They’re wrong about what matters. Reading isn’t about the mechanics—eyes tracking words, fingers turning pages. It’s about absorbing ideas,...

Who coaches the coach

The executive sits across from me, frustrated. Revenue plateaued. Team morale dropped. Market share slipping. “I’ve tried everything,” he insists. Everything except the one thing that matters most: looking in the mirror. We all have blind spots. The...

Leadership theatre always fails

Reed Hastings didn’t become Reed Hastings by copying other media executives. Yet most leaders do exactly that—they grab tactics from admired bosses and stitch them together like a corporate Frankenstein. Consider how Satya Nadella transformed Microsoft. He...

Playing favorites matters

Leaders often pride themselves on treating everyone equally. Yet, like skilled gardeners who give different plants varying amounts of water, great leaders know that equitability isn’t always equal. A McKinsey study revealed that high performers are 400% more...

When reality is wrong

Research from Harvard’s Daniel Gilbert reveals our brains process over 11 million bits of information per second, but we’re only consciously aware of about 40 bits. We’re not seeing reality – we’re seeing our filtered version of it. “The...