Essays on what actually changes a leader.
Long-form writing on leadership development, executive coaching, and the systems-level work of teams. Grounded in research and twenty years of practice. Updated periodically.
Learning to hear yourself.
Every leadership skill you’re trying to build assumes you can hear yourself clearly in the moment. Most leaders can’t. Here is the skill underneath all the others, and how to train it.
Read the essayWriting on the work of practiced leadership.
Learning to hear yourself.
Every leadership skill you’re trying to build assumes you can hear yourself clearly in the moment. Most leaders can’t. Here is the skill underneath all the others, and how to train it.
The $366 billion problem nobody wants to solve.
Why the leadership development industry keeps spending more and producing less. And what changes when development is designed for skill, not insight.
Sight-reading at Carnegie Hall: leading through BANI in Tech and GovCon.
What brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible conditions ask of a leader. And why practiced presence beats perfect preparation when the score keeps changing.
Rethinking leadership development: moving from knowing to doing.
The knowing-doing gap, deliberate practice, and what musicians have been doing for centuries that leadership development hasn’t yet figured out how to copy.
The composition of high-performing teams.
A late-night quartet rehearsal, the Katzenbach & Smith characteristics of high-performing teams, and what music makes visible about how a small group of people actually produces value.
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