How to Argue With Your Boss Without Losing Your Job
Reading Time: 11 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. A VP I was coaching sat across from me, visibly exhausted. His CEO had just greenlit a go-to-market strategy…
Performing for the Audience: How Public Success Masks Internal Bankruptcies
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The air outside the trattoria on Greenwich Village's Carmine Street was sharp with late-autumn frost. Inside, the room was…
Stop Repeating Mistakes – A 5-Step Guide to Break Free from the Cycle
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. You fixed the bug. Deployed the patch and watched it run green for three weeks. The same error popped up,…
The Horse Knows: The Fatal Cost of Our Own Stubbornness
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. You see pictures of men like him in magazines. They are a force of nature, lifting heavy, running miles,…
Mindfulness: The Projection Screen Your Mind Creates
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. I walked my usual morning route yesterday. Same path I've taken for three years. Forty minutes through the neighborhood,…
Moral Licensing: Why Good People Do Bad Things
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. Matteo sat on the floor watching his cat, Gus. Gus had pressed his entire body against the heating vent.…
Ghost Polishers: When Your Performance Exceeds Your Existence
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. Jeff Bezos was sitting in a 31st-floor office in Manhattan when he ran the calculation that would build the…
Grief: The Version of Success You’re Still Mourning
Reading Time: 10 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The Grief Nobody's NamingTracy was wearing the t-shirt from her failed startup while pitching her new one. Navy blue,…
The Bridge You Build Through Suffering
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The train from Bangkok rattled west for three hours. The air grew thicker. The rice fields gave way to…
Boredom: The Fallow Ground Where Everything Important Grows
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. There is a farmer in Portugal I spend time with who is special. To his neighbors, he's an enigma:…