The Seduction of Success

The Seduction of Success

Success is intoxicating. When you’re praised and celebrated, it’s tempting to fall for the stories others tell about you: you are invincible, destined for ever-greater triumphs. It’s not risk itself that undoes us but the illusion that risk no longer applies. That’s...
Blooming in Your Own Time

Blooming in Your Own Time

Life often feels like a series of prescribed phases: entering adulthood, building a career, raising a family, retiring. It can seem as if we’re expected to move through them in lockstep. Everyone around us appears to be doing the same thing, whether getting a job,...
Inner Freedom

Inner Freedom

It’s important to take a stand. To fight for what you believe in. And fight against what’s wrong. But the everpresent danger in fighting your enemy is becoming the enemy. Hatred can colonize your inner life just as your enemy can occupy your outer one. How do you...
No One Wants This

No One Wants This

“Why would I want that promotion?” I didn’t have an answer. It just seemed obvious to me that stepping into a senior leadership role would be my client’s next career move. I kept hearing this sentiment, from talented and dynamic workers, turning down...
Open Borders

Open Borders

Close the borders. Levy the tariffs. Protect the turf.  It’s a natural instinct to circle the wagons and guard yourself from threats beyond the boundary, whether those boundaries are national, organizational, or team-based.  It’s a natural instinct. Except it doesn’t...