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The Real Reason Leaders Struggle to Delegate

Delegation isn't a skills problem. It's an identity problem. Why capable leaders struggle to let go, and the question that helps them release control. ...

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Unlearning Silos: Your Most Important Metrics Are the Shared Ones

Over the past few years, I’ve supported three very different organizations through enterprise-wide transformation efforts with their executive teams. First healthcare, then education, and now a public agency. Different sectors. Different challenges. Yet all ...

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Pivoting Much? The hidden cost of changing direction, and the reflex worth unlearning.

Have you ever looked back on a project and wondered, How did we end up here? Somewhere along the way, you changed direction. Then changed it again. And maybe one more time after that. ...

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The Turtleneck Principle: What Steve Jobs Understood About Unlearning

There’s something that most leaders who have worked with me hear me say often. We are going to take the “turtleneck approach” to this because not every decision deserves your attention. Every morning, Steve ...

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The Marie Kondo Method: Unlearning the Identities Cluttering Your Leadership

Is your leadership style hoarding? The Marie Kondo approach to unlearning identity Growing up, I was the kid in the house who wanted to throw things away. Our home was a museum of just ...

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When Helping Hurts: Unlearning What Creates Dependent Teams

Overfunctioning doesn’t always look like control. Sometimes it looks as subtle as answering a question. It looks like speaking first in every meeting. Resolving the tension before anyone else can. Being the person everyone ...

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Unlearning Busyness: Why Busy Is Not a Strategy

Something keeps showing up in my work with organizations around how people are spending their time and their perspective around productivity. When leadership teams commit to creating more space for strategic priorities, the first ...

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Your Best Leaders Are Staying in Their Lanes. That’s an Unlearning Opportunity

Unlearning Leadership Silos for Stronger Teams Every senior leadership team eventually arrives at some version of the same conversation. Someone’s stepping on someone else’s work. Decisions are being made without the right people in ...

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The Unlearning Paradox: Why We Resist the Very Things That Will Transform Us

I was sitting across from the executive sponsor of a leadership academy I was running for a client, pitching a workshop on mindful practices. I believed in what I was saying. I had data, ...

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The Unlearning Prescription for Burnout

There is a reason your computer slows to a crawl when you have thirty tabs open. The machine is doing exactly what you asked it to do: hold everything, run everything, treat everything as ...