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It is March, which means both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments are in full swing. What makes March Madness so compelling, beyond the upsets and buzzer-beaters, is that it is a masterclass in team dynamics played out on a national stage. Every year, highly recruited rosters full of individual talent get sent home early by teams that simply play ...

Mentoring is one of the most powerful things you can do in your career, and most people aren’t doing it. Not really. They’ll grab coffee with a younger colleague once a quarter, offer a vague word of encouragement, and call it mentoring. That’s not mentoring; that’s being polite. Real mentoring is intentional, consistent, and honest. It requires you to inve...

Let’s get something straight: the people who refuse to adopt new technologies damage their businesses and fall behind. In this moment that technology is artificial intelligence and those not integrating it are already losing. AI may or may not be coming for your job but someone who knows how to use it just might be. Whether you’re a law firm, running a small bu...

Understand that the idea beats the execution. Every time. We live in a culture obsessed with hustle, with grind, with the relentless optimization of how you do things. But none of that matters if what you’re doing isn’t worth doing in the first place. The spark, that original, electric moment of genuine inspiration, is the most valuable asset anyone can posses...

Something that separates successful professionals from those who plateau is that the most effective people aren’t always the ones who are technically right. But many times, the people who are right walk away empty-handed because they confused being correct with being persuasive, being accurate with being influential, and being smart with being strategic. Every w...

In the current Winter Olympics, Lindsey Vonn was a feel-good story about 41-year-old ski racer making a remarkable comeback from partial knee replacement surgery and retirement from the sport in 2019. She even won two downhill events during the 2025-26 ski season prior to the Olympics. But she crashed just 13 seconds into her Olympic downhill run. Vonn was airlift...

In a recent conversation I had with a long-time friend and client I learned that despite him being in a successful business built through hard work, he is restless and wants to make a change but is scared to do so. I believe that lifetime learning and being open to change is important for all of us. Learning and change are possible at any point in time if you’re ...

Everyone wants to know the secret formula, the one big move that changes everything. But the reality of how success gets built is mundane. Success doesn’t happen because you had one brilliant insight or made one perfect decision. Success happens when you put in small, consistent amounts of effort, every day and every week, regardless of whether you feel motivated...

This isn’t mystical thinking or motivation poster nonsense. It’s how human behavior works in practice. Most people think success happens to other people who got luckier breaks, better genetics or more helpful connections. What they’re missing is that your mindset about yourself is the single most powerful predictor of whether you’ll accomplish what you set ...

Too many people obsess over their salary, bonuses, job title, or for their business, revenue numbers and targets. They’re staring at the scoreboard instead of watching the game being played right in front of them. The football coach Bill Walsh said that “the score takes care of itself” and it’s a fundamental truth about how sustainable success works in busi...