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Leadership is not just influence. It is load. If everything becomes your emergency, the system is broken. Fix it with decision clarity, steady presence, and practical restraint.
The loud fear of failure drowns out the quiet fear of never knowing. But only one of those fears creates wounds that heal.
The difference between extraordinary achievement and constant restarting isn't talent or luck. It's whether you've built a momentum machine that runs even when motivation dies.
The best coaches figured this out decades ago. Saban's Process. Belichick's expectations. Cignetti's explicit no-captains policy. When you designate leaders, everyone else stops leading.
Nobody chooses bureaucracy. But every approval layer you add is proof you chose fear over trust, rules over judgment, and protecting yourself over building excellence.
Most companies aren't consciously choosing mediocrity. They're living in a complete fantasy about their own capabilities while demanding breakthrough results from infrastructure designed for average performance.
Perfectionism isn't high standards—it's fear management. Strategic imperfection creates more progress than perfect ever could.
Most leaders want AI transformation results without undergoing the leadership metamorphosis it requires. Here's what AI-first leadership actually demands.
Your meetings aren't just boring. They're killing the ideas that could transform your company. Ancient Greek wisdom about questions reveals why most conversations extract information instead of developing breakthrough thinking.
Most one-on-ones are glorified status updates disguised as leadership development. The DIALOGUE method transforms individual conversations into systematic leadership multiplication, creating leaders who create more leaders through structured excellence.
Companies obsess over team size while ignoring the fundamental truth: transformation happens at the leader level, not the team level. Size is a symptom, leadership is the cause.
Excellence isn't just about individual character, it's about creating environments where excellence becomes natural, inevitable, and sustainable for everyone. Here's how leaders architect the conditions for human flourishing.
Most leaders try to control people. Great leaders design environments. Here's why environmental design is the ultimate leadership leverage and how to create conditions where excellence becomes inevitable.
The most influential people don't have the biggest titles. They have something more powerful, the authority of example. Here's how to lead through character, not position.
In the quiet hours when decisions weigh heaviest, leadership can feel like a solitary journey. But it's in these moments that both leaders and their teams can transform pressure into power. Here's how to keep the flame alive.
They're relentlessly positive. They say yes to everything. They talk about collaboration constantly. But underneath the performance, real execution never happens.
In fast-moving tech cultures, dissent feels like friction. And friction feels like delay. But a team that agrees too easily is already halfway to failure.
Your best ideas are vulnerable to creativity hit jobs. Learn to guard your spark, select the right team, and keep innovation flowing despite the critics.
First principles thinking strips away the bullshit and starts with what's undeniably true. It's how leaders transform organizations and build the future.
Most teams are trained to dodge the mess—great leaders dive in. True leadership is built in the climb, not at the summit.
The best leaders don't micromanage every note—they create the groove and let their team play. Here's how to lead with rhythm, trust, and improvisation.
Most people wait for struggle to humble them. The best train for it. The Reset Walk is a simple practice to build resilience before stress takes over.
Speed isn't the goal—winning is. Learn how the fastest teams avoid wasted motion by solving the right problem before they execute.
Leadership is a high-stakes game where the cards are rarely all face-up. Learn how to read the room, filter the noise, and make winning decisions.
Every decision creates ripple effects. Learn how to see beyond the immediate impact and think like a master strategist to build long-term success.
Discover how AI-driven, adaptive learning is reshaping education. Parents no longer have to wait for change—they can take charge today.
Great teams don't avoid conflict—they process it efficiently. The key to success isn't eliminating conflict, but resolving it quickly and productively.
As ChatGPT reshapes the digital landscape, learn how to evolve your SEO and marketing strategies to stay ahead of the curve and maintain your competitive edge.
Discover practical approaches to balance daily responsibilities with innovation initiatives, ensuring your organization stays competitive and forward-thinking.
Explore the crucial roles of enforcers and nurturers in team dynamics, and discover how their complementary strengths create high-performing teams.
Discover how Price's Law explains the distribution of knowledge and productivity in organizations, and learn how to leverage this understanding for better team management.
Discover practical approaches to make accountability visible and actionable within your team and organization.
Explore the advantages and challenges of both live and recorded product demos, and learn when to use each approach effectively.
Learn about the critical changes and challenges organizations face during different growth stages, particularly when doubling in size.
Discover how high-performing product organizations balance team autonomy with organizational alignment to consistently deliver the most impactful work.
Learn how to strike the right balance between giving teams autonomy while maintaining high performance standards.
Building an idea is hard. Turning it into a business is even harder. Scaling that business is another level of hard. This is a list of tips to help you get there.
MailChimp knocked it out of the park with stunning Christmas gift.
How redeeming my El Pollo Loco birthday reward points revealed powerful life principles through exceptional customer service.
What does exceptional service at 10,000ft look like?
How to estimate everyday things.
The future we want has to be created by us. Creating the Arizona we want.
The future we want has to be created by us. Creating the Arizona we want.
AZ Art Project Influx AZ coming to Chandler, AZ.
If you read a lot of digital content, you should share a lot. The problem is that you probably read in spurts. If you shared in spurts, you would probably annoy your friends. Buffer helps fix that problem.
Clay Shirky enlightens us in Cognitive Surplus that, the organization of sharing has many forms and that those forms have varying output values. He gives us a way we can identify four essential points on the spectrum
Sometimes when Getting Things Done, you need a little more power in your inbox than the default. Boomerang for GMail is the extra horsepower you need.
Gangplank is a community of creators that fuses family life, civic life, creating and earning a living into this unique blend where anything is possible. The support and tenderness offered is counter balanced by a gruff and forceful exterior making participation daunting to most.
Changing a community is slow work. Paying attention to the details and working with discipline over time with patience is required to get real results.
Planning events is difficult. The hardest part is starting. Here is a quick 10 step guide to get you planning for that perfect event you have been dreaming about.
Consumption is rampant. What does is it mean to create?
Governer Jan Brewer announced the new AZ Commerce Authority Board today. It is no surprise that it is full of Land Developers, Sports/Tourism and Manufacturing. All industries that were leaders of the OLD economy.
Notes from Brian Cole talking about economic development strategies at from Arizona's 96th Town Hall on Building Arizona's Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness.
Notes from Joe Kalt talking about Arizona's economy from Arizona's 96th Town Hall on Building Arizona's Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness.
Random notes from the Arizona's 96th Town Hall on Building Arizona's Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness.
Why do we keep doing 1950 economic development? Capital first, then innovation and then people. Yet, companies wanting to be here say that it's lack of skilled people that keeps them out. What are we doing to invest in people? Keep and attract the best and brightest?
The basis of the 'Sharing Economy' operates on principles. How are you seeing them applied in the world around you? What can you learn from them? How are you applying them?
I am a fan of great service. When I see it exemplified I try to share it. For example, QuikTrip does a great job #winning. Another company that has always impressed me is Discount Tire. They always greet me right away. They fix my tires for free when repairable. They give me a free air check when my tires are low. All of this even on tires not purchased from them. WOW! They never give me problems when I need tires rotated or tires replaced under warranty that I did purchase from them.
When talking about Gangplank I always struggle to consider it to have anything to do with coworking. After doing some reading on collaborative learning vs. cooperative learning, I believe I can better articulate the difference between collaborative workspaces and coworking spaces.
The Greater Phoenix Economic Council released a report touting that Skysong actually is exceeding expectations and has been underestimated. Citing a $113 million impact which is largely calculated using salaries of people that have worked there over the last five years.
The University of Phoenix announced a 42% decline in enrollment with forecasts that next quarter will see another significant dip. The number one reason cited is a change in rules affecting for-profit-schools that restricts paying admission counselors based on how many students they enroll.
It is no secret, I love books. One of my favorite things to read is autobiographies. I enjoy them because I love to hear the authors reflect back on how they got started. A glimpse of what made them who they became.
I see a lot of new technology. Not very often am I impressed. Microsoft has a winner on their hands with Kinect. I completely ignored it at launch. Gangplank even had Kinect setup at the Chandler Block Party with tons of kids playing it. It looked stupid to me. The Wii had already won my heart.