Category: Leadership

  • The Curveball

    One of the marks of a great leader is their ability to deal with unexpected circumstances: curveballs. You can do all the planning you want, unexpected things will happen at the last moment. The only question is what you’ll do when they’re thrown. And in fact, curveballs can be a good thing. – I remember…

  • Climbing the Ladder of Leadership

    When we talk about “climbing the ladder”, we usually assume an upward climb. It’s as though the climb to leadership is a big king-of-the-hill battle. The goal is to be on top. But you know what happens when we assume… Leaders know that climbing the ladder is, in fact, a climb downward on an inverted…

  • Give: Simon Sinek on the Good Life Project

    The Good Life Project is a weekly web show hosted by Jonathan Fields that features interviews with amazing people who ask the question, What does it look like to live “the good life”? The interviews are long (40-60 minutes), which are a departure from the short snippets that we’re accustomed to digesting online. Fields is…

  • Why Not Lead?

    The myth is that not everyone can be a leader. After all, if everyone leads, who will follow? we ask, as we sit back in our seats. The truth is, each of us can lead. Every day each of us are faced with the choice to sit back and go with the flow, or lead.…