Insights
Named failures, in plain prose.
Where the thinking is published first.
Two series
Written for two rooms.
The Clarity Crucible
A LinkedIn newsletter for C-suite executives: prose essays and audio recordings on the specific, named failures I see most often at the top of an organization. Trust repair. Operational excellence. The difference between confidence and comfort.
The Management Crucible
A companion practitioner series for the managers underneath that C-suite, built around the specific defensive phrases leaders hear from their teams, and grounded in the same I/R spine.
Recent essays
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Resilience Tells You How Well You Recovered. Presilience Asks Whether You Were Ready.
Most leadership development still measures the bounce-back. The better question is why the drop had to happen at all. Most of what leadership development calls resilience training is actually recovery training. It teaches a leader how to metabolize a hit after it lands: how to steady the room, how to talk to the board, how…
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Charisma Is Not a Personality Type. It Is a Set of Choices You Can Rehearse in a Mirror.
Years ago, rehearsing for a World Championship semifinal, I was working through the section of my talk where I described my mother’s passing. A friend named Lee was watching me run it and stopped me cold. “Why are you smiling,” he said. “Your mom just died.” I argued with him. I was not smiling. I…
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