How many meetings are too many? It’s a question I hear all the time.Most people I work with—whether in workshops, coaching calls, or leadership development sessions—tell me they attend far too many meetings. And I don’t disagree. Many organizations have defaulted to a meeting-first mindset that often sacrifices productivity for routine.But here’s the truth: The

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) The gap between potential and performance exists for everyone. Some significantly close this gap – those are people we often look up to and admire. Others seem to have gaps that are so large that we see tragedy

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It’s my birthday today—but that’s not really what this post is about.This moment just gave me the perfect excuse to talk about something that often goes unnoticed in the workplace: celebration.We’re pretty good at celebrating in our personal lives. In fact, the U.S. birthday party industry was worth around $10 billion in 2020. That’s right—parents

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Let me ask you a question I bet you’ve never asked yourself:What can leaders learn from trees?It might sound a bit strange at first, but stick with me. Nature often has lessons for us if we’re willing to observe. And in the case of trees, those lessons are both powerful and practical.Trees Are Stable and

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How patient are you with yourself?Last week, I asked you to consider how patient you are with others—a question that’s deeply important for leaders. But today, I want to turn the lens inward. Because the patience we offer others is often directly tied to the patience we show ourselves.So let me ask again: How patient

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How patient are you with others?It’s a simple question—but not always a simple answer. If you’re like me, you might say, “It depends.” Sometimes I’m calm, collected, and patient. Other times? Not so much. And if we’re being honest, we can all look back at moments when we think, “I could have… should have… been

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Something we have been doing our entire lives should be easy and instinctual. Right? What if that thing is communicating? If it’s so natural, why are we always complaining that someone misunderstood what we said, or that meeting could have been an email, but nobody read the email!? This is particularly common in remote work

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Is patience just waiting?When you think of patience, do you think of just sitting around, waiting for something to happen?A lot of people do. And while that’s part of patience, it’s not the whole story.Today, I want you to think about patience differently.Proactive PatienceWe often think patience means doing nothing. But there’s another kind of

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Whether you know it or not, you have a leadership identity. And that identity plays a very real part in how you do the work of leading every day. It is hard to overstate the role our identity

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Uncertainty. It’s everywhere.Whether it’s a shifting marketplace, changes in your organization, or even the everyday unknowns of life, we all face uncertainty — often more than we’d like. And when we do, it’s easy to feel anxious, frustrated, unsettled… even scared.If you’re a leader (and even if you’re not), these feelings can get in the

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