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The Bystander Effect of Leadership
This is an essay from my popular 100 Days of Leadership Series. If you would like to learn how to become a leader in your organization, your community, or in your personal life, sign up here to receive these short essays directly to your inbox. Think you can’t be a leader? Think again. It seems that most people, in…
Run the Extra Mile
Don't just go the extra mile. Run. It was 3:00 in the afternoon on a chilly February day. Tryouts for the 7th grade baseball team were just about to start and I was eager as ever to put my skills to the test for the first time. In those days (circa 2004), to try out…
Crossing Your Rubicon: Give Yourself Permission to Write History
On January 9th, 49 BC, Julius Caesar stood at the north bank of the narrow Rubicon River as a Roman general and former governor of Cisalpine Gaul. Julius Caesar’s skills as a general and a leader were displayed in such brilliant fashion over the preceding decade, that the Roman Senate had grown uneasy. Threatened by…
Learn Your ABCs: The Agony and Beauty of Creation
6 Lessons I Learned Through One Week After Hitting “Publish” “Pain plus reflection equals progress.” –Ray Dalio If you are a painter, a dancer, a comedian, actor, singer, or fellow writer, you know how hard it is, how humbling it is, how overwhelming it can be to put your work out to the world for…