Designing Clarity for Visionary Leadership & Livable Success
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 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 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 …
The BOLD (Firm Foundation) Entrepreneurs are told to work both in and on their businesses. When we work in our business, we are doing the tasks and accomplishing the projects that generate our income and create the output that we are in business to create. When we work on our business, we are accomplishing the …
The BOLD (Dip Your Toe in The Water) In 1927, Max Ehmann wrote a poem called Desiderata. The last line is excerpted below as our quote for this article. In Desiderata, Ehmann lays out the basic building blocks of a good life. What are the basic building blocks of your best life? I suggest that they are the things …
The BOLD (Hopper at the VMFA) This past weekend, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts completed an exhibit entitled Edward Hopper and the American Hotel. Hopper is the artist responsible for the painting Nighthawks. I completed my third visit on Friday with yet another companion. I enjoy going to art exhibits with different people because the art …
