I asked a group of leaders recently:
If your business doubled in the next two years, what would break first?
The answers came quickly.
Culture and innovation. Quality and customer experience. Getting the right people ready fast enough.
One leader said it can take three to six months to get some...
The version of you that built what you have is not automatically the version that takes it where you want to go next.
I say this to leaders constantly, and almost every time, something in their face changes. Not because it's a criticism. Because it's the thing they already knew and hadn't said ...
Over the past few weeks, I found myself asking the same question more than once.
How did this happen?
Not because something had gone terribly wrong, but because several customer experiences made me wonder what was happening inside those organizations long before I became the customer.
I received ...
Hi everyone,
One of the things I value most about my work is having a front-row seat to the conversations business owners and senior leaders are having as they navigate growth and change.
Over the past couple of weeks, three conversations have stayed with me.
One leader was getting ready to leave...
The numbers are there. The team is solid and the business is producing and from the outside it looks like things are working. But there is a gap between what is happening and what you know is possible, and the harder you push toward it, the more that gap stays exactly where it is.
In almost every...
I spent a weekend in the woods with a bed and a real bathroom.
I love nature. I do not love sleeping on the ground. Glamping is what I am.
My girls, my husband, fresh air, a fire, and a little room to think. Â
Here is what I have learned about myself over the last few years: if I do not deliber...
The biggest pattern I'm seeing right now is businesses trying to grow with leadership structures that no longer match the current complexity.
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Revenue grows. Opportunities grow. The business gains momentum. But internally, decisions either slow to a crawl or get made too fast to be right. Leader...
I spend a lot of time thinking about what it takes to keep leveling up in life and business. Not in a pressure-filled, do more way, but from a what's possible here approach. The kind that feels energizing, expansive, even a little fun. And if there's one place it all starts, it's clarity. It's...
I think it’s worth starting with what happened Friday night.
I was just fascinated by the magnitude of it.
It is hard not to get a little emotional and full of pride watching the four astronauts come home from Artemis II and thinking about what they accomplished together.
I found myself glued to ...
Growth gets a lot of attention.Â
What it does to leaders and teams gets far less.
Growth doesn’t break most businesses.It exposes the gaps that were already there.
The business is moving. There’s progress.But underneath it, things start to feel heavier than they should. Things take longer than t...
The impact of leadership decisions often shows up first in teams.Sometimes in confidence and momentum. Sometimes in hesitation.In conversations with leaders recently, one frustration keeps surfacing:
"My team just isn't taking ownership."
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And what makes it frustrating is that most of these lea...
Earlier this week, I wrote a LinkedIn post:Â Weak judgement scales faster than bad strategy.
The conversation that followed centered around discernment, a word that feels increasingly important in a world where information is abundant and decisions move faster than ever.
One response framed it thi...
