October 22, 2026
I need to call the CEO of a company about a possible business opportunity. Simple enough. And yet the moment I think it, the mind starts working. Should I? Will he even want the call? This is something we have Read more…
October 21, 2026
Many of us treat information as though it were truth. It is not. Information can be incomplete, biased, second-hand, misunderstood, or simply wrong. Truth is harder. It takes time, effort, and honest digging to get to it. And that matters Read more…
October 20, 2026
What you feel inside doesn’t always match what you show on the outside. You can feel nervous walking into a difficult meeting and still choose to act calm for ten minutes. The nerves are real. But they don’t have to Read more…
October 18, 2026
Zeno had spent years building his life as a merchant. Then, on a voyage carrying a valuable cargo, his ship was wrecked. By the time he reached Athens, much of what he owned was gone. For a while, he wandered Read more…
October 17, 2026
Someone I was mentoring asked me a good question today. When making an important decision, how do you know when to trust the data and when to trust your intuition? I think there are three useful questions. First, will more Read more…
October 16, 2026
When you ask people to change, you are often asking them to live with uncertainty for a while. A new system. A new market. A new way of working. The questions are predictable. What if this fails? What if I Read more…
October 15, 2026
If you’re in doubt about something that’s not in your life, try it. Things are so different in practice versus in theory. The only way to know is to experience it yourself. Try it examples: Err on the side of Read more…
October 14, 2026
Dissatisfaction gets a bad name. But pointed at the right things, it can be one of our most useful forces. It makes us fix a broken process, question an easy answer, improve something that isn’t good enough, or refuse to Read more…
October 13, 2026
Some of life’s hardest decisions come from the fact that two opposing things can be true at the same time. You can trust your team and still verify the details. You can be confident in a decision and remain open Read more…
October 12, 2026
Dear Dad, Everything is going well here at college this semester, so you can stop worrying. I am very, very happy now. . . you would love Ichabod. He is a wonderful, wonderful man and our first three months of Read more…
