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LEAD BOLDLY: The Smallest Next Right Action

Sometimes the goal is not the problem. The distance between here and there is the problem. When you are stuck, scared, overwhelmed, or just ...

Data is useful. Until it isn’t. There are moments in leadership when the spreadsheet says one thing and your gut says another. When everyone ...

Take a balloon. Blow it up. Now let the air out. Nothing left. Flat. Done. Until you fill it again. Here is the part ...

I don’t like quitting. My school motto growing up was Latin for “I will find a way or make one.” Honestly, I think that ...

We are very good at the next thing. The report goes out and we are already on to the proposal. The proposal lands and ...

Some of you know I’m working on a book and in doing so have been rereading blogs of the past. This one, from right ...

For the last few months, my back has been a mess, although the real problem is a nerve in my neck. I was in ...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve watched people work for years toward a dream, finally reach it, and feel… nothing much. Not failure. ...

I think at least half the overtime I have ever worked is my own fault. It’s led me to ask a question of everyone ...

Ten years ago, I heard a four-word description in a speech that stung. And changed my life. A speaker I heard a decade ago ...

Last Saturday I went to meet my friend Laurie at the farmer’s market. As is usual we met for coffee across the street. As ...

I have been feeling overwhelmed. Too much to do. Too many life things. Just too much. In the old days, I’d use the long ...