Reading Time: 7 minutesSome messages arrive fully formed. Mine never do. It started as a line I wrote in service of someone else’s purpose. I was supporting employee and business communications at Cox Enterprises, working on content related to its purpose statement at the time: Empower People Today to Build a Better Future for the Next Generation. Somewhere […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAs leaders, we set the emotional tone for our teams. Most of us never notice we’re doing it. A reel in my social media feed asked a question that got me thinking. Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer reads the temperature. The thermostat changes it. The Marine Officer’s Point Landed
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Reading Time: 9 minutesThe Two Sides of How a Leader Leads Lead with Light™ lives at the intersection of logic and light, competence and character, systems and soul. I call it rigor and radiance. Rigor and Radiance Most leadership development obsesses over rigor because rigor is measurable. You can certify it. Test it. Put it on a résumé.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesYou Heard It from a Stranger Picture the moment. You open a news app on a Saturday morning and learn something important about the company you work for. A reorganization. A leader’s exit. A shift in direction that touches your team or your own job. You didn’t hear it from your leader. You didn’t
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Reading Time: 7 minutesHere’s the question that comes next. If you’ve read Start with Why, you know the power of Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle. The idea is elegant. Most leaders communicate from the outside in. They lead with what they do, then explain how they do it, and rarely get around to why. Sinek flipped that. Great
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Reading Time: 6 minutesThere’s a framing problem at the heart of how many leaders think about developing people. Without realizing it, they approach leadership like carpentry. They’ve got a blueprint. They’ve got tools. And they set out to cut, shape, and sand the people around them until they fit the design. The problem? People aren’t lumber.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesMany of us learn how to perform before we learn how to discern. At a very early age, we figure out what it takes to gain approval and succeed. We learn how to carry responsibility, meet expectations, achieve goals, and keep moving. Along the way, we strive to build a respectable life but maybe still
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Reading Time: 7 minutesDiscover the Virtues Hardwired Inside You Centuries before satellites orbited the earth or glowing maps lived in our pockets, explorers relied on stars, sketches, instruments, and instinct. Few minds obsessed over direction, proportion, and orientation more than Leonardo da Vinci. His notebooks brimmed with maps, mechanical designs, river systems, and flying machines. Navigation fascinated him,
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Reading Time: 5 minutes… and the way I think about them, they’re not preachy either! Leaders, including me, love their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), dashboards, and quarterly reports. They’re the love language of logic, the scaffolding of competence. And they absolutely matter. But here’s the inconvenient truth: KPIs, OKRs, and the data on
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