Why we promote, elect, and follow bad leaders

Why we promote, elect, and follow bad leaders

It’s hard to accurately tell the sex of a baby chick. That’s how we keep ending up with roosters. We order female chicks, and while they say about 10% of every order might be roosters, those statistics, at least for us, never seem to hold true. Once, we got 5 roosters...

Why we elect, promote, and follow bad leaders

It’s hard to accurately tell the sex of a baby chick. That’s how we keep ending up with roosters. We order female chicks, and while they say about 10% of every order might be roosters, those statistics, at least for us, never seem to hold true. Once, we got 5 roosters...

This wasn’t the plan …

It’s Monday morning and I’m standing in a pool of black mud in the middle of my mother’s living room. This wasn’t how I had planned to spend my day. Even though I had obsessively tracked the path of Hurricane Ian the week before it made landfall in Fort Myers,...

The 50/50 of Leadership

I started my career as a psychotherapist. The problem was, in my early twenties I looked 12. And so it was a struggle for me to occupy that role. Not only because I looked young, but because I was young. While I had been trained and had insight, I lacked lived...

The Key to Bottom-Up Change

“Put the oxygen mask on yourself first, and then place it on your child. If you’re traveling with more than one child, start with the one with the greatest earning potential.” By now, most of us have seen those videos of funny flight attendants...