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 Belongs to UsPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentSome of us hold a lot by default. High standards. Excellence. Responsibility that shows up before we are even asked. We become the obvious choice. The one the team leans on. The one a manager trusts. And we can carry it. We often...
8 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 | Boundaries Without WallsPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentMost of us have said it, or thought it.I’m just busy. We mean, there is a lot to carry. Work. Home. Health. The invisible decisions and the visible tasks. And when the load gets heavy, we reach for boundaries because we...
15 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 | When Is It TimePractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentThere is a question many of us carry beneath the surface.Should we stay, or should we go? An organization. A team. A project. A place we keep showing up.We wonder if we have done all the good we can do. We do not want to leave from...
22 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 | How We StandPractical wisdom for the pivots that shape us. The MomentThere is a new kind of pressure around us.Not just to keep up, but to prove we still matter. Some of us worry that using new tools will build the case that we are easier to replace. Others worry that not using them will leave us...
29 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 | 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...
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 | 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...
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 | 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...
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 | 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 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 | 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...
2 months ago • 1 min read