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Transformation is not Permanent
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Transformation is not a permanent state we arrive at, but an ongoing practice of returning to what we intended and choosing it again. The same is true of balance: life keeps shifting, so alignment must be continually renewed. A few days ago, I wrote a Dragonfly Thoughts…
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Clarify Before You Amplify. But Don’t Build a House There.
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Every important decision needs clarity, but clarity has a point of diminishing returns. The challenge isn’t reaching 100% certainty, but recognizing when you already have all the understanding you need to move. Clarify before you amplify is my tag line, but it’s also the one sentence that guides everything…
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Steal Like an Artist, but Vet for Burden
Borrowing ideas from others is a great way to innovate, but every creative spark carries an unseen cost. Today we are surrounded by so many different ideas and ways of doing things that deciding what to steal can quickly lead to disorientation instead of clarity. Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist encourages remixing existing work.…
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What To Do When Your Brain Hijacks Your Day
Some days your brain hijacks the whole thing. That was today. A personal matter reached in, took the wheel, and drove off with the hours I’d meant to spend elsewhere. By the time I looked up, the day was mostly gone. Lost to total derailment. I want to be honest about it, because I think…
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A Practical Look at Faith in Business
Faith is often avoided in business. It either sounds too religious for the boardroom or perceived as too impractical for strategy meetings. Yet every entrepreneur exercises faith. None of these come with guarantees. In a Return to Love, Marianne Williamson tells us that there is no such thing as a faithless person. The question isn’t…
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Before Your Next Move, Seek Understanding
One of the most enduring poems in the English language, The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was inspired by a military disaster during the Crimean War. I kind of half learnt it because my eldest brother had to memorize it for a school assignment and would walk around the house reciting…
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How the Best Football Teams Answer The One Question Every Business Must Answer™
Every four years, the world watches football’s greatest coaches make decisions that appear almost instinctive. Should they play with three at the back or four? Should they press high or defend deep? Should they attack through the middle or exploit the wings? Should they rely on experience or give youth an opportunity? To the casual…
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Beware of Inertia
Have you ever walked into a room looking for something and forgotten why you entered? For a moment, you stand there trying to reconstruct your original purpose. You moved and are now standing in the room yet somewhere along the way, you forgot your reason for being there in the first place. Organizations can experience…
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A Blank on the Map: The Cost of Premature Certainty
In Blank on the Map, explorer and mountaineer Eric Shipton describes an expedition into a region of the Karakoram where the maps contained large areas marked simply by what was not known. There were mountains, valleys, rivers, and glaciers already there, but they had not yet been explored or accurately recorded. The blank existed on…
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The fog of war does not only exist on battlefields
The fog of war is a phrase that originally belonged to military strategy…those moments where commanders were forced to make decisions while visibility remained partial, communication fractured, and information arrived distorted through fear, delay, assumption, ego, or incomplete observation. From a distance, war often looks like movement directed by certainty. Inside it, however, people are…
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