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Lingering Legacies: When Persistence Masks Irrelevance
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: The Salvatori Building continued to serve different purposes as Trinidad evolved. Its story reminds us to examine whether adapting an established structure is preserving its relevance or postponing a necessary change. For an entire generation of Trinidadians, the Salvatori Building was one of the defining landmarks of…
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Can’t is the Cancer of Happen
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: “Can’t” becomes dangerous when it is accepted as a fact before the situation has been properly examined. Strategic alignment requires us to distinguish between a genuine constraint and an untested assumption that prevents anything from happening. Can’t is the cancer of happen. This line is attributed to…
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The Problem Is Not Understanding-It’s Resolution.
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Broad categories can make us believe we understand a person or problem even when they conceal the distinctions that could change our decision. Better decisions require us to examine whether we are viewing the situation at the level of resolution it actually demands. A recent Forbes headline…
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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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Seize the Moment, not the Day
We have all heard the phrase Carpe Diem. Seize the day. In Choose Hard, M.J. DeMarco offers a subtle but important shift. Don’t seize the day. Seize the moment. We don’t make decisions in days, weeks, months, or years. We make them in moments. Every conversation. Every email. Every purchase. Every difficult discussion we avoid.…
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Complete Fearlessness Is a Recipe for Ruin
Yesterday I wrote that cynicism is not wisdom. It is often fear wearing the mask of intelligence. Today, I’d like to explore the opposite extreme. Complete fearlessness. We often celebrate fearless leaders, fearless entrepreneurs, and fearless decision-makers. Yet complete fearlessness is not a virtue. In business, it can be be a recipe for ruin. Fear…
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