Lessons on creating sponsorship relationships across different identities.

You probably already know that developing sponsors is important. This post shows how people who have built them did so.

The start of a research effort on how people actually for valuable sponsorship relationships.

Instead of fighting the overwhelm perhaps we should just give up and start from scratch.

How we might reduce overwhelm by reconnecting with our core purpose.

Lessons for how we might see our own agency when trying to overcome feeling overwhelmed.

Three strategies for how to make sure our stories aim at the right target and break through to our audience.

Leadership lessons from NFL QB Ryan Fitzpatrick.

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.