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Twenty Points Apart
Gallup asked leaders to rate themselves on seven leadership competencies. Then they asked the managers who work for those leaders to rate the same people on the same seven things.
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Thoughts, insights, and lessons learned from 33 years of building companies and growing people.
The Jezebel Archetype
Jezebel never drew a sword. She wrote letters in the king's name, called an assembly, seated false witnesses, and let the process do the killing. The seventh Archetype entry on power that hides inside procedure.
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The Signal I Was Actually Watching
A mentor client asked me whether there was a moment I knew I had made it, and he meant financially. There was no number. What I actually watched was whether my people were growing.
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The Standard That Held
Nick Saban walked off the field for the last time in January 2024, and the word reporters kept reaching for was not relief. It was grief. Men who had been screamed at in practice did not describe a tyrant.
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Unity Is Not Sameness
The growth of humans is tied to being united with others who are not the same. Most leaders agree with that in principle, then build a team that violates it in practice.
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The Ruth Archetype
Naomi told both of her daughters-in-law to go home. She had nothing left to offer them: her husband dead, both sons dead, and a road back to a country that had watched her leave during a famine. Ruth refused to go.
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Scoreboard Leadership
Wells Fargo's "Eight is Great" sales culture shows what happens when a number replaces a mission -- and why the two employees who used the company's own ethics hotline to report the fraud were the ones who got fired, years before Congress ever questioned the CEO who built it.
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The Barnabas Archetype
Barnabas gave before proof existed: money, reputation, and a decade of belief in Paul with no contact to back it up. A positive archetype in the leadership series, examined through the same lens as Judas, Absalom, and Nehemiah.
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They Still Call Him
Part one of a five-part series on transformational and servant leadership. Nick Saban's 1998 phone call to a stranger, days before the biggest game of his career, is the proof that transactional leadership fails under real pressure and what has to replace it.
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The Absalom Archetype
Absalom never accused David of failing. He just stood in a gap his father left open, morning after morning, until the sympathy he built there cost David his own most trusted counselor.
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The Pipeline Isn't Draining. It's Refusing to Fill.
Leadership burnout data reveals a pipeline collapse, not a wellness problem. When leaders exceed their capacity to absorb pressure, it goes downward onto teams or inward onto their own health. The next generation is watching and refusing to inherit the role under current conditions.
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The Nehemiah Archetype
The wall was never the hardest part. Nehemiah held two threats at once, external opposition and corruption inside his own community, without letting either one wait.
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