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You’re not too much. They’re too comfortable.
Every time you shrink to make others comfortable, you confirm the belief that you're too much. I've noticed...
Control the effort. Release the outcome.
This is one of the distinctions I return to most often in coaching. Not because it's complicated. Because...
It doesn’t get easier!
I spend a lot of time on trails. And I've taken a lot of leaders on them over the years. There's a moment on...
Letting go isn’t giving up.
I was working with a senior leader who had been fighting a decision his organisation had made for nearly...
Saying No Isn’t Mean — It’s Honest
The version of you that says "no" isn't meaner. It ran out of playing the social performance of wanting to...
Resistance isn’t strength.
There's a particular kind of leader who fights everything. Every change, every challenge, every piece of...
The Confidence Nobody Tells You About
Every leader I respect has told me some version of the same thing at some point: I still don't always feel...
A depleted person gives depleted results.
This is the business case for self-care. For the leaders who don't respond to the wellbeing argument. Not...
The Courage to Slow Down
If there's one thing I've noticed in my leadership programs, it's this: the most effective leaders aren't...
Your beliefs are not facts.
I've sat in rooms with some of the most capable leaders I've ever met, and watched them talk themselves out...
Stop Talking…
We've become so uncomfortable with silence that we've lost the ability to use it. In conversations, silence...
Delegation is much more than efficiency
The biggest lessons in delegation belong to the one who delegates. Many see delegation as a means to boost...