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The journey out of Wonderland

We can burn a lot of time and energy imagining things. Not creating but ruminating, worrying, speculating. It usually takes the form of “I’m not sure what they meant by that.” or “I don’t understand...

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Learning to lead

You are decaying. Sorry, as disconcerting that truth may be, we tacitly if not begrudgingly accept that reality. If you’re somewhere past your 30-somethings, the tipping point arrives and biological...

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Data, guts, and the art of decision-making

Thirty-three years ago this week, I and several other people stood on a roof of an office building in Florida and watched the space shuttle Challenger thunder upwards into the brisk morning sky. We...

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The Practice Of Leadership

My 14-year-old grandson bounded into our home a few weeks ago, excited to show me that he had learned the opening chords of the Southern rock standard Sweet Home Alabama. (Such rites-of-passage are a...

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Exercising Love

Over the last two decades serving as a leadership coach, at some point in our conversations I have asked nearly all of my clients to recall someone who has had a lasting positive impact on their life...

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The Sand Is Still There

It is one thing to peer at the grainy, monotone photographs and films of documentaries and news programs this week, or to wince vicariously at the brutal opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. It is...

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Space, silence and the substance of leadership

Child: How many stars are in the sky?Parent: I don’t know. Shall we count them? They will be there a while. As context, our home-sweet-home Milky Way galaxy alone is considered to have 200 billion...

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When the hits come

They say it happens in a split second. When you’re going 75 miles an hour, a split second is all the time it took for the 120-pound deer to show up in the path of my motorcycle while riding on the...

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Doubting to learn

Many years ago in my corporate career, someone who knew me well told me: “You’re not always right, but you’re never in doubt.” It took me a while to realize that the observation probably wasn’t a...

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The Rest of Life

With my wife out with her regular group of friends, I had the night to myself. It had been easily three years since I really played my guitar with any intentionality, so I dug out a James Taylor CD and...

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