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Field notes from the arena
Short reads on the pressure, politics and hard calls of leading at scale, drawn from years inside Fortune 100 leadership teams.
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The Blame List Is a Symptom
I sat with a client I’ve worked with for years while he went through his version of that list. When he finished, I said: “You know the next name on that list is going to be mine.”
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Blame is what pressure does when it has nowhere left to go.
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The work is helping my clients catch the story before it runs the meeting, the decision, or the day.
What a Rollerblading Class Taught Me About Risk
I was giving myself permission to fail and see what happened.