One of the hardest lessons I’ve ever had to learn is how to graciously receive. Today I’m asking you to learn it faster than I did. Because your heart will rejoice, your shoulders will lift, and you will stand so much stronger in your own skin. Don’t be like me. Please don’t be like me. […]
Is there someone who crossed your path and permanently altered the way you see the world? Not a mentor you sought out, but someone who found you at exactly the right moment, with exactly the right idea? I never met Bob Chapman personally. I stumbled across him the way the best discoveries happen: the right […]
Everyone is talking about the jobs. Which jobs AI will take. Which jobs are safe. Which skills to learn, which to abandon, which to pivot toward before the window closes. It’s a reasonable conversation. It’s also missing the point by a considerable margin. Because entry-level jobs were never really about the work. Yes, they paid […]
YES, I know there are multiple wars going on. NO, this is NOT specifically about any of them. But if you see similarities …… Did you hear that Unilever is buying McCormick’s spices? It’s a bit complicated. Unilever is spinning off its food business to merge with spices leader McCormick & Company in a ginormous […]
Last week was Easter. For Christians, it’s the season of atonement, forgiveness, and renewal. Even if you don’t follow that tradition and you simply feel some kinship with a source greater than yourself, you likely understand forgiveness at its most fundamental level. It has nothing to do with the other person. It has everything to […]
Here is an uncomfortable idea to sit with. The climate crisis is not just a story about oil companies, corrupt politicians, and the occasional billionaire with a superyacht. It is also a story about you. About me. About the completely normal, socially rewarded things we do every single day without a second thought. Stay with […]
If what got us into a predicament cannot be what gets us out of it, then we need different thinking, different perspectives, and different priorities. That is the cleanest way I know to make the case for diversity without getting tangled in the vocabulary that tends to derail the conversation before it begins. Here is […]
Do you remember being six years old?Someone told you that you’d done something amazing, and the feeling was electric. Pure. Instantaneous. You stood a little taller. Smiled a little wider. Felt, for one shining moment, like you could do anything. Here’s what nobody tells you: that feeling never goes away. More than twenty, forty, sixty […]
Phase 1: The Executive DNA Decoder $15,000 Discovering the genetic patterns of your success. One problem. Pre-defined before we begin. One outcome. Most successful leaders operate on autopilot — unconscious of the precise patterns that have been generating their results for decades. Which is impressive, honestly. You’ve been running a sophisticated success algorithm for twenty years […]
Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia and arguably the most powerful man in the current AI revolution, said something quietly devastating to students at Cambridge University recently. “Intelligence is about to be a commodity.” He wasn’t being pessimistic. He was being precise. The thing we’ve spent decades credentialing, testing, and competing over, y’know, our raw […]