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To What Service Is My Soul Committed?
Today’s 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 in two sentences: 𝗪𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘂𝘀’ 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, “𝗧𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱?” 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁…
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Why Caribbean Leaders in Top Tier Positions Avoid Assessments
There’s a leadership conversation we keep skirting in the Caribbean.Everyone is willing to assess the organization. Assess the team. Assess the culture. Assess the managers. But the person who shapes the emotional, psychological, and strategic weather system of the entire enterprise remains… untouched. Untouched, unexamined, and often unadvised. It’s not because our leaders don’t want…
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How Do You Design Your Day?
Most people design their day around habits they’ve been told are “good.” Be disciplined about all of it! And when it doesn’t work, they assume the problem is them. But what if the issue isn’t discipline at all? What if it’s design? Over time, I’ve learned that people don’t fail at productivity. They fail at…
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Know Yourself Before it’s Impossibly Late
Most people believe they know themselves, and that confidence is rarely questioned. It feels reasonable to assume that living inside your own mind grants you privileged access to who you are, yet psychological research and lived experience both suggest otherwise. Self-knowledge is not a natural byproduct of adulthood. It is a discipline, and one that…
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Discover how Identity Welds to Performance
Hidden inside Manhattan’s bustling 34th Street–Herald Square subway station is a world you’d never expect: Nōksu, a 2024 Michelin-starred, 15-seat tasting counter where nine deeply technical, deeply intentional plates are prepared with almost scientific precision — under the hum of New York City. The tasting menu — $245 per person — consists of seafood-forward plates…
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How to Recognize Hidden Expertise Before It Walks Out the Door
Professor Phelps, an Australian researcher, ran a month-long experiment with student teams solving management problems. Unknown to the participants, some four-person groups had a planted “special guest”: Even when the other three teammates were motivated and capable, a single negative presence cut the group’s performance by 30–40 percent. His conclusion? Team success depends less on…
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Beethoven’s Counterintuitive Productivity Secret
The fourth quarter is almost here—the year’s final stretch, when projects intensify and goals push for closure. It’s the season when pressure quietly mounts and rest, though deeply needed, can feel like a luxury. Yet some of history’s greatest creators understood something we often forget: progress depends as much on deliberate rest as on effort.…
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Realistic Timelines Enable Unrealistic Complexity
The word realistic is used often within business discussions. “Is that realistic?” “Are we being realistic?” “This sounds really good on paper but perhaps we need to be MORE realistic.” Realistic suggests the reasonableness of the timeline and therefore guarantees success. Realistic timelines are often a hiding place for organizational drift, where inefficiency and mediocrity…
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When your Gift Becomes a Cage
Scott Clary, in his Saturday Strategy Sessions newsletter, asked a powerful question: What if the thing you’re best at is the thing that’s killing you? He used the example of Josh Waitzkin — chess prodigy, national champion, International Master, and the inspiration for Searching for Bobby Fischer. By all external measures, Josh was destined for…
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