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Get To Work

get to work

You don’t need a better tool to do better work. You don’t need a bigger team to move faster. You don’t need a bigger budget to start. You don’t need the perfect process, the right structure, or senior buy-in before Read more…


Choose Different

choose different

An uncomfortable question worth sitting with. Can your current choices carry you to where you want to go? Not will they. Can they. Because in many cases, the outcome you want will keep eluding you even if you try harder. Read more…


Don’t Look For Validation

validation

There’s a pattern I keep seeing. Someone shares an update. The numbers aren’t great. The situation isn’t clear. But somehow the conclusion is always the same. It’ll work out. That’s not optimism. That’s confirmation bias. We don’t look at facts Read more…


If You Were Ready, It Wouldn’t Be Growth

if you were ready

There will never be a perfect time to do something that stretches you. Not when you are starting something new. Not when you are being asked to think bigger than you are used to. Not when the ask feels larger Read more…


Fear In Disguise

fear in disguise

Our excuses are rarely what they appear to be. I know this because I made plenty of them in my younger days. Not enough time. Not enough support. Not the right connections. Not enough knowledge. Each one felt completely legitimate Read more…


Different Windows

different window

Something I keep reinforcing with my sons. We spend a surprising amount of energy managing how other people see us. Adjusting what we say. Second-guessing our decisions. Softening our choices to fit what we think others expect. And when the Read more…


Seriously Vs Personally

Personally

Taking things seriously without taking them personally. Most of us don’t make that distinction. The moment criticism lands, we treat it as an attack. We defend ourselves, construct counter arguments, replay the conversation in our heads, and lose sleep over Read more…


Check The Mirror First

check the mirror

When things aren’t working with others, we rarely look at ourselves first. A colleague is difficult. A client is unresponsive. A conversation keeps going nowhere. The instinct is to diagnose the other person. Their attitude, their priorities, their problem. But Read more…


The Hard Work of Empathy

hardwork of empathy

Most of us think we are more empathetic than we actually are. We nod at the right moments. We say the right things. We treat empathy as something that naturally shows up when we need it. A side effect of Read more…


Busyness Illusion

busyness illusion

“This is complex. I’ll need at least two weeks.” We’ve all said it. We’ve all heard it. And in most cases, if you’re being honest, the task didn’t take two weeks. It took two days. The other twelve were spent Read more…