Comparing the leadership insights from NBA champion coach Phil Jackson to other leading thinkers.

What U Can’t Touch This can teach us about leadership, and why I’m maybe not the best parent.

Cal Newport argues that we should introduce far more robust processes to knowledge work to “dramatically increase performance and make the work much less draining.”

Few people object to the idea that focus and prioritization are important. It’s just that it’s hard to do in reality. Here are some tools to be better at subtraction.

By changing one’s approach to brainstorming—focusing more on questions than answers—leaders can yield more instructive insights.

When leaders stop making decisions, it can enable otherwise passive followers to become proactive leaders. These lessons from David Marquet and Turn the Ship Around! show us the way.

Greg McKeown shows that even after you’ve cut everything that is nonessential from your life, things can still feel off. Thankfully, in Effortless, he provides strategies to achieve an effortless state.

The lessons I learned during on the first year of Thrive Street Advisors.

A framework for preparing for communications, inspired by Let the Story Do the Work by Esther Choy.

How using humor, centering, and putting oneself in the story can help black leaders communicate more effectively.

The major reframe that helped these Black leaders feel comfortable showing vulnerability at work: concluding that while self-protection is legitimate, it's not always useful.