INSIGHTS FOR GROWTH

Thoughts on leadership, career transitions, team dynamics, and personal growth.

Something Is Coming

Thirty years in executive leadership. Seven years coaching 750 leaders. Six thousand hours. The same twelve patterns kept showing up — and at some point I stopped being surprised and started writing them down. Something is coming in June.

Irreplaceable People Don’t Get Promoted.

He was the person who could fix anything. The firefighter. The fixer. Everyone depended on him. And he could not figure out why he kept getting passed over for VP. The answer was hiding in plain sight.

Hand moving a chess piece on a board mid-game representing the forces of self-interest, ego, and competition in leadership

Three Forces You’re Underestimating at Work

There are three things people consistently underestimate in every professional relationship: self-interest, ego, and competition. This isn’t cynicism. It’s calibration.

Aircraft cockpit instrument panel with dials and gauges representing the Altitude Dial framework for leadership

How to stop doing everyone’s job (and start doing yours).

You know you’re doing work that belongs below your level. The question is how to actually stop. Four practical tools for leaders stuck at the wrong altitude.