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Prepare in the Good Times 

One of my favorite Stoic admonitions is to train for the hard times during the good times.  Stoic philosophers like Seneca and Epictetus firmly believed that people

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Peace 

What will it take for you to have peace to make the difficult change(s) you know you need to?  This question crosses my mind frequently when working

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Juggling it All 

So much of business success (and life success!) is learning to effectively juggle it all.  “What’s the priority?” “Everything feels urgent!” “Where should my time go?” “I’m

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Sacrifice 

Could you make the sacrifices for one year that are necessary to never have to sacrifice again for the rest of your life?  I think

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Wanting to do the Right Thing 

We don’t have to do the right thing.  We get to do the right thing. And we should want to do the right thing.  No one forces us to take responsibility for doing what needs to

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Autonomy 

Autonomy does not mean freedom from feedback.  A lot of senior leaders want more autonomy. They want the freedom to do things how they want to do them, to

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Too Controlled 

“Too controlled is out of control, too!”  This is one of my all-time favorite sayings from David Allen’s Getting Things Done.  I work with a lot

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Results Matter

Results are what matter, and results are what we should communicate.  A lot of people I work with talk a whole lot about what they’re going to do or

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Command of the Data 

If you don’t have command of the data, what business do you have in being a leader?  In my music background, a friend once shared this story. At a conducting

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