INSIGHTS FOR GROWTH

The pressure to think short-term has never been greater. Quarterly targets. Monthly metrics. Weekly reviews. Daily fires. Everything pushes you toward the immediate. And the immediate is almost never where the most important work happens. Here's what I've noticed about the best leaders I work with: they think in years, not quarters. They ask: What am I building? Who am I becoming? What will this look like in three years if I stay the course?

January is full of goal-setting. Vision boards. Strategic plans. Long lists of everything we want to accomplish. But here is what I have learned from working with hundreds of leaders: the ones who achieve the most do not have longer lists. They have shorter ones.