Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | What We Bring Into the RoomPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentWhen we lead anything, we want to do it well.We want good decisions, strong outcomes, fewer costly missteps. So we stay close to the plan. The metrics. The details.And sometimes we forget that the plan is carried by...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | The Work of UnblockingPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentWe can usually feel when something is off before we can name it. A team slows down. A conversation keeps circling. Progress stalls, but no one is fully saying why. In work and in life, bottlenecks do not always appear in...
21 days ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | The Why That GuidesPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentThere is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from misalignment. Everyone is working hard, but toward different ends. It looks productive from the outside. Meetings. Updates. Late nights. Progress. And then we reach the...
28 days ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Information, Not IdentityPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentWe can spot it quickly in others. A direct report pushes back. A teenager argues the point. A friend goes quiet. And we feel drained, because what was meant to help gets taken as a hit. Yet the same reflex shows up in us....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Feedback as InvitationPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentThere is a kind of feedback that lands like a verdict. It closes the conversation before it is even heard. At work it can sound like rules. At home it can sound like a lecture. The words may be true, but the posture makes...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | A Second Set of EyesPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentOften it is not the workload that drains us.It is the decisions. A day where every choice feels like it matters, and we feel tired before we even start. One after another. Small ones and heavy ones. The kind with consequences...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Resisting the RescuePractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentSometimes it looks like helping. You rewrite the email. Clean up the mistake. Cover the gap. The work keeps moving, but it does not sit right. Not in the moment. Later. When you realize you saved the outcome, but you also kept...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Adaptability in PracticePractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentChange rarely waits until we are ready for it.It shows up in the middle of a plan. A timeline shifts. A need changes. A conversation goes differently than expected. The demands are high, the pace is fast, and it can feel...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Wednesday! As you step into the natural pivot point of the week, here’s a brief moment of encouragement and perspective to help you lead the pivots in your life. Leading the Pivot | Seeing the GoodPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentWe rarely have to go looking for what is wrong.It finds us. A missed mark at work. A hard update with our kids. A lab result, a symptom, a number. The gaps rise to the top of the day, and they speak loudly. The PivotWhat is good...
2 months ago • 1 min read