Vision statements can be tough. You spend time crafting the words, share them with your company, and hope they spark energy… only to watch them fade into the background within weeks. We’ve seen this happen in all kinds of organizations, which is...
Some days it feels like your team is working hard but not working together. You sense tension, misalignment, or confusion, but you’re not sure what’s underneath it or how deep it goes. That uncertainty weighs on leaders at every level, and it can make choosing a team...
“There is never a good time for a busy man to take a vacation. And since there is never a good time, he might as well take it whenever he wants.” – Bill Buckley While my work output has never been so prodigious as Bill Buckley’s–magazine founder, editor,...
The turning of the year is a human construct, but we still imbue it with all kinds of meaning. I don’t go in much for resolutions, and the statistics about people actually keeping those resolutions (Save more! Eat healthy! Call my mom!) is kind of laughable. Still, to...
“Success leads to happiness” is a story. It’s so powerful and pervasive a story that often we don’t even realize that it’s working in our lives as a kind of operating system below our consciousness. We’re following a narrative that we haven’t consciously...
We all want to be happy. That’s a given. Written into our Declaration of Independence is our common belief in an unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. But should we pursue happiness, and how does our work intersect with and impact our happiness? The...
