Forced Emergence vs. Allowed Emergence: Why Strategic Plans Fail When You Schedule Creativity
My workweek is 50% as long as it was in 2019. My highest-leverage results happen in about 4 hours a week. And they almost never happen during the blocks I've labeled "strategic thinking."
The Vision-Execution Gap: Why Your Body Knows Before Your Mind Does
Your body has been trying to tell you for months that something fundamental isn't working.
When the New Year shine starts to fade
and life creeps back in…
How to catch misalignment before it costs you trust
The signals your team isn’t trained to hear
How Control Culture Kills Innovation (and What Strong Leaders Do Instead)
I once watched two experienced professionals get scolded for networking—because they didn’t ask for permission first.
To “protect
Align Your Actions With What Matters Most: How to Use Sam Horn’s Matrix to Master Your Time and Energy
There’s a difference between being productive and being in alignment.
Most high-performing professionals I work with aren’t lacking
AI and Authentic Leadership: Why Thoughtless Content Fails
If you're worried that using AI to help you write will make your content sound inauthentic, you'
AI Summary: World Government Summit 2023 Recap [Experiment]
I tested multiple AI tools to recap some of the noteworthy moments from the 2023 World Government Summit in Dubai.
Ridiculously Efficient Coefficient Catalyzer #38: Start, Stop, Continue Lists
Following up on last week's time audit activity, this issue focuses on another tested time-optimizer: making Start, Stop, Continue lists.
Researchers Suggest a Hack to Make Financial Decisions Easier
New research has found a few helpful tips we can use when making financial decisions. When it comes to making
Keto Confidence: How Changing My Diet Helped My Career
In 2016ish, I switched to a ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting at the suggestion of a few friends. Everybody does
3 Ways to Lead With Love & Enable High-Performance Teamwork
Can you get what you want and be nice while doing it?
When I was little, Dad used to say,
