Lessons from Joseph McCormack’s book Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less on how we might improve our approach to enable more concise communications.

How to lead change by reducing our judgments and analyzing the barriers to change for those we want to influence.

Using calendar time is a false construct when it comes to understanding the organization and the strategy. When leaders scrutinize how these constructs affect our understanding, it can reveal opportunities to make them more useful tools for decision-making.

What we can learn from Kevin Durant and other Olympians on leadership.

Having opinions can close off inquiry, calcify our thinking, and increase the odds that we’ll enter into ego-filled contests to defend our perspective.

Quieting our judgments is how we can lean into our development rather than cutting it off because it doesn’t feel good.

Is Top Gun the greatest movie of all time? Definitely. Is Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone a great lesson about leading ourselves? Definitely maybe.

Cultural norms and our biases can distort the information coming into our minds, leading us to write bad “headlines” about what we’re seeing. 

Yes, being a professional means being able to focus when we need. But real pros also know when they need to cut themselves off.

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.