The Bold | Room for Reset Now that the agitating New Year’s Resolution season is in the rear-view mirror, it seems a good time to discuss fresh starts and new beginnings. The calendar doesn’t determine when a restart is warranted; we do. Every reset needs room, and many cultures acknowledge this with house cleaning rituals […]
The Thinking Plan | Thinking about how you think
The Bold | Agatha Understood How To Think Seventy years ago, one of the most successful authors of all time, Agatha Christie, confided to the New York Times that she got her best ideas while soaking, undisturbed, in a footed bathtub, while munching apples. The delightful image of a row of apple cores ringing the […]
The Intentional Focus: Designing Clarity, Energy, and Meaning in a World of Distraction
The Bold | We Don’t Manage Time Time management is a myth and a misnomer. Generations of books and articles promised that the key to productivity is the ruthless management of a commodity over which we have no control—time. We move through time. We calculate it. We mark it. We use it. Perhaps we waste […]
The Clarity Requirement: When Certainty Isn’t In Reach
The Bold | Leadership in a Time You Cannot Control You don’t know. Your inbox is full of questions that assume you should. Decisions are pressing. Stakes are high. The old anchors—precedent, reliable data, predictable patterns—no longer offer what they once did. Uncertainty is no longer episodic. It is ambient. Leadership now requires making consequential […]
The Big Deadline: Building Legacy without Sacrificing Possibility
The Bold (Legacy is Generous) A recent trip to Ft. Myers, Florida taught me an important lesson in work, vision, and legacy. It is possible to be so blinded by our own definition of how a project should unfold, of what success entails, that we miss opportunites that would require us to slow down, hand […]
The Contented Appetite: Driving Change with Happiness
The BOLD (Nurture Happiness) Your feeds are full of New Year’s energy, I’m sure. “Jump on this one moment, the only one in which new starts are possible, and make massive plans to conquer space and time itself.” No pressure. My feed is bubbling with the stuff. I love this time of the year. I […]
The Visionary Responsibility: Show Them What You See
The BOLD (Visionary to Leader) Creative disruptors, the ones who live in the flow of ideas and who invest their curiosity in breaking things to make them better, have a big challenge. In amongst all those ideas flowing through these fertile minds are the seeds of solutions that we all need. To get those seeds to […]
The Mulligan Shot: 2021’s Sticky First Week
The BOLD (Take a Mulligan) At first, I thought it was just me. Then I had some conversations—with clients, with colleagues, with friends—and apparently many of us have had a very sticky first 12 days of 2021. The good news is that new start can have a new start. We can still rock 2021. Even if […]
The Attention Budget: Protect Your Focus
The BOLD (Focus Shines) Imagine that your focus is a laser beam. Lasers concentrate the energy of light into a beam that can cut steel. Concentrate your focus and you can cut through obstacles, distractions, and obscurity. Given that, it is important to pay attention to where you spend your energy to generate that focus. Choose well. The […]