I have watched teams implode over who was correct about a deadline, a budget line, or the exact wording of an email sent three weeks ago. I have sat in rooms where people pulled up receipts,…
I used to believe that saying yes to everything made me a good person—a reliable friend, a supportive partner, someone who showed up when it mattered. The logic felt airtight: if I cared about…
I have watched people spend more energy forecasting the next quarter than observing what is happening in the current one. We build elaborate models to predict customer behavior while ignoring the…
I have watched leaders exhaust themselves trying to control outcomes they were never meant to orchestrate alone.The pattern shows up everywhere—in the manager who rewrites every team deliverable…
I have been thinking about uncertainty differently lately, and I want to share what has emerged from that inquiry. Most of us treat uncertainty as something to eliminate or minimize, as if the goal…
I have watched organizations suffocate their own missions while believing they were protecting them. The pattern is consistent and well-documented — a gradual inversion in which operations no longer…
I spent months in a project that was not working. The client had their diagnosis and their solutions. I had frameworks suggesting their framing was generating the problems they were trying to solve….
The personal development market hit $48.4 billion in 2024. People bought books, downloaded apps, enrolled in webinars, and subscribed to podcasts. They consumed content about productivity,…
Just a few classes into teaching business through a postsecondary prison education program, I have already learned more from my students than I could possibly teach them.
I have watched nonprofit founders navigate a particular kind of confusion that surfaces when their organizations begin to grow, and what strikes me most is how rarely anyone names what is actually…