When did you last walk out of one of your own meetings certain that everyone in the room knew exactly what to do next? Not roughly. Not “they’ll figure it out. ”Certain. If you hesitated, you are in good company. Most senior leaders I work with do too. I used to think the job of a senior leader was to hold more than anyone else in the room. More information. More context. More options. The leader as the place where complexity went to be processed and decisions came out. I do

In the last post, I wrote about the gap between knowing what to say and being able to access it under pressure. This post is about the next gap. The one that sits between finding your clarity - and making it land. Because access is only half of it. The harder question, particularly as roles become more senior, is whether your thinking actually reaches the person on the other side of the table. Whether they can follow it. Whether they can act on it. Often, they can't. Not beca

Why effort is contextual, and what that means for how we lead.

Choosing to be coached is a brave thing. And yet there is a trap worth naming honestly, because I have seen it catch good people. This is what I have learned about the difference between paying for coaching and truly being ready for it.