Nothing Happened Again Today
There was a long stretch when Leaders Evolution was a thing I could describe and could not show anybody. I could tell you what it would do. I could not point at it. There was no membership, no platform, no first cohort, no revenue, and no evidence beyond a man in his own house talking […]
The Answer You Didn’t Give
He was young, and he was sitting in my house asking me about faith. The questions were not clean ones. He was not building an argument or asking me to settle anything for him. He was working something out while he talked, the way you do when a thing is still moving around inside you […]
The Alarm Nobody Runs To
The best week Melissa had all year was the week the regulators called. She runs a healthcare company that had been growing faster than the systems underneath it, and she had come to me some months before that convinced she was not built for the job. The way she described it, the problem was her […]
You Set the Weather
I spent a good part of my career hiding behind good numbers, and I was talented enough at it that almost no one caught me, least of all myself. The spreadsheets were tidy. The margins told a story I was glad to tell. When a partner or a lender asked how the business was doing, […]