Puppy love

Puppies don’t analyze or judge. They don’t calculate ROI before showing enthusiasm. They engage fully, completely present. Your team craves that exact authenticity. Leaders chase sophisticated engagement strategies while missing this fundamental truth:...

Every day is a reset

Yesterday’s success expires at midnight. Top performers rebuild momentum daily. Your scoreboard always starts at zero. The success from yesterday deleted. The failure forgotten. Each sunrise offers a fresh chance....

Daily walks

The CEO knew better. During our two-day strategy session at a remote hillside retreat, deep in planning and decision-making, he insisted on something seemingly simple: walks. Before dawn’s first light, during breaks, and as evening shadows stretched across the...

Season’s edge

Every quarter marks a boundary, not just a date. Would you plant seeds in winter? Chop wood mid-summer? Of course not. Yet in business, we treat January like October and April like January—days blur together without acknowledging nature’s rhythm. The quarter...

Anchored

The market shifts, a key employee quits, your biggest client walks away – these aren’t storms you invited. Yet here you are, in the churning center. The Stoics understood this distinction perfectly. Epictetus reminded us that while we cannot control...