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Notes on leading, and being led by, yourself

Reflections from 25 years in the room, and from the coaching chair.

Start hereTransformation · 3 min Why transformation starts from the inside out People often come wanting to change something external. Almost every time, we end up at the lens through which they are looking at the goal, not the goal itself. Read the piece

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  1. Listening The art of listening: what leaders rarely doThe leaders who navigated enormous change were not the ones with the best communication skills. They were the ones who heard what was not being said. 4 min
  2. Leadership The saboteurs sitting at your leadership tableEvery leader has an internal cast of characters that shows up under pressure. Most have been running on their fuel so long they have mistaken them for strengths. 3 min
  3. Transitions What no one tells you about executive transitionsThe hardest part is rarely the new role itself. It is the in-between: after one identity has ended and before the next has fully arrived. 3 min
  4. Reinvention Standing at the reinvention thresholdReinvention rarely arrives as a clear call. It arrives as a quiet friction, a sense that the life you have built no longer fits the person you have become. 3 min
  5. Gratitude The power of gratitudeGratitude is often reduced to a journaling habit. Used well, it is a second lens, one that lets a person register what is working without losing the instinct that built their success in the first place. 4 min

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