Leadership

Three months ago, I sat across from a VP of Operations who told me something I hear constantly: “Our leadership team spends 18 hours a week in meetings, and we still can’t make a decision.” He looked exhausted. His team was brilliant, experienced, credentialed. But every strategic conversation devolved into what he called “intellectual wrestling […]

You’ve trained your team. You’ve documented the processes. You’ve delegated the tasks. And yet, at 11 PM, you’re still the one triple checking the deliverables, rewriting the emails, and fixing the “small things” that somehow only you can see. Sound familiar? Here’s the uncomfortable truth: You’re not just being thorough. You’re running an invisible script […]

Last month, a VP I work with confessed something she’d never said out loud: “I used to wake up with ideas. Now I wake up exhausted by the thought of my inbox.” She wasn’t depressed. She wasn’t unmotivated. She was physiologically bankrupt. And she thought it was her fault. If you’ve ever felt guilty for […]

Most business failures happen because we solve the wrong problems. We see a drop in sales and immediately blame our sales team. We notice high employee turnover and throw money at salaries. We experience quality issues and crack down on manufacturing. These solutions feel logical in the moment, but they rarely work because we are […]

We often hear that we should try to balance work and life, and that our days can be divided into two equal parts that stay separate. For entrepreneurs, that idea rarely fits. Our work is part of who we are. It shapes how we think, what we value, and the kind of life we build. […]

We’ve built our entire corporate culture around a lie. We tell people that career success equals life success. We reward long hours, celebrate those who sacrifice weekends, and promote the ones who respond to emails at midnight. Then we wonder why our top talent leaves, why engagement scores drop, and why people seem increasingly disconnected. […]

For years, many entrepreneurs have been told that success is a straight line built on focus, consistency, and effort. You set goals, push yourself harder, and measure progress through results. Yet over time, something begins to feel off. The harder you push, the less effective it becomes. You might start questioning if your hard work […]

Have you ever felt like you are pushing as hard as you can but never really moving forward? You set goals, you chase them, and yet progress feels slow or inconsistent. Many leaders and managers live in that loop, believing more effort will eventually solve the problem. But effort alone is rarely the issue. The […]

We’ve all worked on teams filled with smart people. But sometimes, even with all that talent, the team just doesn’t click. Google wanted to know why. In 2012, they launched Project Aristotle, analysing 180 teams across the company to crack the code of team effectiveness. What they found surprised everyone, including their own data scientists. […]

We’ve been told a lie. We’ve been told that success at work means sacrifice at home. That if we want to climb the ladder, our families must pay the price. We see it everywhere: the executive who misses every school play, the entrepreneur who hasn’t had dinner with their kids in weeks, the professional who […]

We see it happen in every high pressure team. The star performer who always delivers suddenly starts missing deadlines. The enthusiastic team member who used to jump into every challenge now sits quietly in meetings. At first, these changes seem small, but they actually show something important: the person is experiencing burnout. HR professionals and […]

When we think about burnout, we usually picture working too many hours, having too many things to do, and handling too much responsibility. But burnout often comes from something deeper than just our jobs. Many of us learned habits as children that affect how we deal with stress, what others expect from us, and our […]