You’ve Integrated a New Behavior When You Start Teaching It
How do you know when a new behavior has truly taken hold? When you’re doing it without thinking. And when you find yourself passing it on to someone else. I want to tell you about a client of mine. When we first started working together, she was burned out. She was spending long hours at […]
Stop Calling Them Soft Skills: Why Human Capabilities Drive Zero-Distance Organizations
For more than a decade, I had the privilege of directing the Center for Collaborative Leadership. Our work was based on a simple yet powerful idea: when people feel trusted, included, and invited to lead from wherever they sit, the entire system performs at a higher level. Decades of research on shared leadership back this up. […]
Are You Living a Life Aligned with Your Values? Here’s How to Find Out
I often hear from leaders who feel frustrated, stuck, or stretched too thin — only to discover the real issue isn’t workload or circumstance, but a misalignment between how they’re living and what they truly value. Sometimes, they don’t even realize it. And many believe there’s nothing they can do. Take Cameron, for example. When […]
Why Your Strongest Emotions Reveal What You Truly Value
We often think of values as aspirational statements—words we choose to define who we want to be. But in practice, our deepest values often reveal themselves in subtler ways. One of the clearest signals? Our emotional reactions. Recently, I joined a small-group Q&A call on Zoom. The moderator began by setting a clear expectation: everyone […]
