There’s a moment that happens as you get older—usually quietly—when all the scattered lessons you’ve picked up stop living as individual ideas and start snapping together. Not as answers.As patterns. Last night, that happened for me over a vodka tonic and an unexpectedly good conversation. It wasn’t loud or dramatic.
Today was one of those days. The kind where you wake up already behind.The kind where every conversation feels slightly off.The kind where nothing technically explodes—but nothing goes right either. Lack of sleep did me in. And once you start a day tired, the margin for error disappears fast. We
The Time = Efficiency Lie Last weekend, I caught up with a good friend I hadn’t seen in a while. Over plates of chimichangas, chips, salsa, and iced tea, we talked about work—specifically, how his organization still measures productivity. What surprised me wasn’t the workload.It was the obsession with time
Most Partnerships Fail Before They Start One of my early mentors once told me: “Partnerships are like a marriage—without the benefits of good sex.” It stuck. Because it’s true. Over the years, I’ve partnered with friends, family, near-strangers, and people I trusted more than I should have. I’ve had great
Closure Is Optional There Frank and I were at Einstein’s—bagels, orange juice, and the kind of conversation that only happens when two people stop pretending they’ve figured it all out. We landed on a topic most entrepreneurs avoid because it forces honesty: Letting go in order to move on. Not
Character Is the Missing Variable Most businesses don’t talk about character. Not because it doesn’t matter—but because it doesn’t fit neatly on a spreadsheet. You won’t see it in budget reviews.It doesn’t show up in board decks.It’s not part of quarterly targets or hiring dashboards. And yet, when things go
Over Christmas break, my nine-year-old daughter taught me something about value—without realizing it. It started with a penny. She told me kids at school say pennies are worthless. One cent. Barely money. Not worth bending down to pick up. So we dumped out the jar. Hundreds of pennies we’d collected
SUMMARY In this episode we interview Jeff Orr (TedX Presenter, Leadership & Communication Coach) and Wayne Clancy (Leadership Consultant & Strategist, creator of the MindSuite GPS) to learn about their perspective on leadership in the current state of business. INSIGHTS How empathy, enablement and alignment play a major role in
SUMMARY In this episode we interview John King (#1 New York Times Best Selling Author & Amazon Best Selling Author of the book Tribal Leadership) and Wayne Clancy (Leadership Consultant & Strategist, creator of the MindSuite GPS) to learn about Tribal Leadership and how the culture of a business and
In 2006, Phoenix real estate started sending quiet warning signals. Land deals slowed. Apartments turned into condos. Speculative money poured in at prices that made no sense. Anyone paying attention knew the music was about to stop. I was fortunate—I had savings. What I didn’t have was a plan for