The Layer You Can’t See from the Deck
The Titanic’s crew saw the iceberg dead ahead. The lookout yelled it out; the officer on watch ordered the turn, but sadly, the ship still went down. What opened the hull was invisible from the deck. It was an enormous body of ice sitting under the waterline, the mass no one had a way to […]
Good Friction Is a Leadership Tool. Most Teams Only Have the Bad Kind.
Ask a senior leader what actually keeps them up at night, and it is rarely the strategy deck. It is the quieter fear that somewhere in the organization, on an ordinary Tuesday, one of their people will make a single fast decision that becomes the headline. A wire transfer that never should have left the […]
Two Parts of My Mind Said Click. One Said Noooo.
The emails of two of my colleagues were hacked recently. You might wonder, what does this have to do with me and I’m about to tell you why you shouldn’t just scroll past this one. I opened my email and saw an RFP (Request for Proposal) from a colleague who was planning to engage my […]
The Talent You’re Paying to Lose
Every leader has spent real money getting the right candidates to notice your company. Job board spend, recruiter fees, a careers page that actually reflects who you are as an employer. Every one of those dollars is aimed at getting a qualified person to click apply. What almost no one accounts for is what happens […]
The Hiring Decision You Never Actually Made
Most leaders believe they hire based on sound judgment. A resume comes across the desk, they weigh the experience, picture the person in the role, and make the call. It feels deliberate. It feels like real reasoning. Unfortunately, almost none of it is. The moment a familiar company name shows up on a resume, something […]
The Problem Wasn’t the Strategy…
The strategy is sound and the talent is there. So why does execution keep slipping? What if the strategy was never the thing holding you back? You have sat through the off-sites, funded the team workshops, paid for the assessments, and watched capable people leave a planning session genuinely committed to the plan. The strategy […]
The Hire Who Did Everything Right and Still Couldn’t Win
Every business owner has lived some version of this. You were in search of your superstar, draft pick, and found someone with the right background, the right credentials, the kind of references that make you feel good about saying yes. They were genuinely excited to be there and ready to do their best work. And […]
The Data Doesn’t Lie: What Four Consulting Giants Couldn’t Tell You About Your Team
Let’s start with a number that should bother you. 2.5 hours. That is how much of every single workday the average employee spends dealing with unresolved conflict, drama, and the kind of team friction that never makes it onto anyone’s agenda. Dr. Cy Wakeman’s research has been clear on this for years. On a team […]
The Most Expensive Sentence in Your Business Is “We’re Doing Fine”
A founder I’ll call Dr. John ran a practice that, by every visible measure, was working. Their revenue and patient flow was steady. He invested in the latest technology which made his practice stand out in the industry. If you walked through the door on a Tuesday afternoon, you would have seen a busy, seemingly […]
Your Leadership Team Took Every Assessment. They’re Still Stuck. Here’s Why
If you haven’t watched this week’s video yet, the short version is this: most leadership teams don’t have a communication problem. They have a wiring problem. And the Kolbe methodology is one of the only tools that gets underneath the behavior to show you what that wiring actually is. Not the polished version, not the […]