Change
Why 70% of change efforts stall in month three
The announcement lands, the plan looks solid, and then momentum quietly disappears. Here's what's usually happening underneath — and the three moves that restore it.
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Leadership
The conversation your managers are avoiding
Adoption is decided in one-to-ones, not town halls. A simple structure for the conversation most managers postpone.
Resilience
Change fatigue isn't resistance
When a team pushes back on the fourth transition in two years, treating it as resistance makes it worse. Treat it as capacity instead.
Leadership
What executive presence actually means
It isn't volume or polish. It's the consistency between what you say, what you prioritize and how you behave under pressure.
Communications
Both/and: communicating when you don't have answers
The SOAR model and polarity thinking give leaders a way to be honest about uncertainty without losing credibility.
Leadership
Delegation is a leadership decision, not an admin task
Most leaders hold onto work for reasons that have nothing to do with capability. An inventory approach to letting go.
Teams
Norms beat rules in a hybrid team
Written working agreements outperform policy, because the team wrote them. How to run the session that produces them.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness for people who don't have time for mindfulness
Attention training that fits between meetings, drawn from the Search Inside Yourself program.