Even the Focused Ones Get Distracted I’ll start with a confession. I missed my own deadline today. I am the person who can usually choose where my attention goes and let the rest of the world pass by. Today that skill felt harder to find. Today is Election Day. People are talking about AI andContinue reading “Squirrel! Holding Your Focus When Everything Is Loud”
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What’s Behind the Curtain of Life
I Spent the Day Behind the Curtain Not literally behind a curtain — though in a way, yes. I spent today going through the things that live behind the closed doors and inside the overstuffed drawers and at the back of the cabinets that nobody sees. The accumulated layers of a life in storage. PapersContinue reading “What’s Behind the Curtain of Life”
When the Environment Is Testing You — Stay Anyway
Let’s Be Honest About Where We Are Corporate America is in a difficult space right now for reasons anyone who has spent time there will understand — A gap between what we know to be right and what we watch happen around us. It is wide and genuinely frustrating. You are not alone. The researchContinue reading “When the Environment Is Testing You — Stay Anyway”
You Might Be the Reason Someone Came to Work Today
The Research Said Something Worth Stopping For In the middle of a report full of data about engagement scores and workforce trends and the future of AI in the enterprise, one finding stopped me completely. Sixty-eight percent of employees have at least one coworker who inspires them at work. Not a program. Not a leadershipContinue reading “You Might Be the Reason Someone Came to Work Today”
Purposeful Culture: What You Say vs What People Actually Feel
The Gap Nobody Wants to Name There is a moment most people in an organization have experienced at least once. The town hall. The all-hands. The message from the top about how things are going — the progress, the vision, the state of the culture. The leader at the front of the room, or onContinue reading “Purposeful Culture: What You Say vs What People Actually Feel”
Are You Quietly Cracking?
It Does Not Announce Itself It does not arrive the way burnout does — dramatically, with a clear before and after, with a moment you can point to and say that is when it happened. It is quieter than that. Slower. More insidious in the way that gradual things always are, because gradual things doContinue reading “Are You Quietly Cracking?”
What We Were Told About the Internet: Now Applies to AI
The Talk We Used to Have There was a version of the digital reputation conversation that most of us who grew up alongside the internet either received or eventually gave. It went something like this. Be careful what you put out there. Anything you post — any photo, any comment, any message, any moment ofContinue reading “What We Were Told About the Internet: Now Applies to AI”
Your Reputation in the Age of AI: What People Notice
The Moment That Made Me Stop and Think Not long ago I came across an advertisement for an AI certification program. The ad was polished enough that I clicked through. I wanted to know more — the details, the cost, the curriculum — so I navigated to the FAQ section. When I got there, IContinue reading “Your Reputation in the Age of AI: What People Notice”
You Have Arrived. Now Let Yourself Live There.
The Fear Nobody Talks About There is a particular kind of fear that lives quietly inside a lot of successful people. It is not the fear of failure — most high achievers have made their peace with that one, at least in theory. It is something subtler and in some ways more persistent. It isContinue reading “You Have Arrived. Now Let Yourself Live There.”
You Can Keep Climbing and Still Celebrate the View
A Confession Worth Making I believe deeply in continuous improvement. It shows up in how I lead, how I coach, how I approach my work and my personal growth. The drive to keep getting better — to not let yesterday’s standard become today’s ceiling — is something I have carried for as long as IContinue reading “You Can Keep Climbing and Still Celebrate the View”