Thoughts, insights, and lessons learned from 33 years of building companies and growing people.
In July 2022 I sold the software company I had spent twenty nine years building, and then I said one word that did more damage than any hard year before it. A label is a verdict wearing the costume of a description, and you obey it without ever agreeing to.
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The Archetype Series, Entry Eleven Jonathan takes off his own robe and hands it to David before Saul has said a single hostile word. Genesis gives Cain a warning he ignores. Saul gets a throne he clings to past the point of holding it.
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Interactive EQ ran more than 5,000 role-based workplace simulations across 1,700-plus professionals in 46 organizations this year and published the results as the Behavioral Intelligence Index. The finding that matters isn't complicated. About one in four professionals stall when authority becomes ambiguous, even when they already know the right thing to do.
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Part 4 ended with a question aimed at whoever was still reading after three days at Ia Drang and four days inside Charlie Company.
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Cain did not fail because no one told him. He failed after being told, in words that named the exact danger and the exact way out of it.
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Part 3 closed on a warning. Everything built at Southwest or inside an Alcoa smelting plant got built with time. Years of consistent choices, banked one at a time, until people believed the standard was real. The next environment doesn't have that kind of time.
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Daniel was taken to Babylon as a captive, one of the young men selected from Judah's nobility to be trained for service in Nebuchadnezzar's court.
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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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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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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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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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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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