It was just a call

I’ve banked with the same institution for decades. Not because they’re remarkable. They’re not. Global, established, perfectly functional, and about as inspiring as watching paint dry. I stayed because it was easier than leaving. Convenience...

Not that attention

I’ve watched a few people crash in slow motion. They built their platform on a version of themselves that wasn’t quite true. A little more certain than they were. A little more successful than the numbers showed. The audience came. Fast. And then, as these...

Ringing the bell

I was working with a logistics company a while back. Solid team. Decent margins. Good people who showed up and did the work. But there was something flat about the place. Functional. Just not alive. I asked the operations manager when they last celebrated something....

Your moveable line

We draw our moral lines long before anyone tests them. They feel solid. Permanent. Like foundations. And then someone asks us to shift, just slightly, just this once, to accommodate a different standard. A more convenient truth. We accommodate. Because the...

Seven secondhand sins

You can find a great deal at the vintage market. That is not what this is about. There is a category of secondhand that looks like wisdom, feels like strategy, and passes for leadership. It is none of those things. It is borrowed. And borrowed, in business, is rarely...