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Living Tomorrow Today
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Our goals describe the future we hope to create, but that future is ultimately built through the ordinary choices we make every day. Six Seconds’ idea of pursuing a Noble Goal invites us to keep that larger purpose in view, because misalignment can occur when the way…
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Selling is not Convincing
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Selling is not about convincing people to see what you see. Real value is created when you offer clarity with confidence, let people decide what to do with it, and stop making your worth dependent on their agreement. Many of us have been taught that selling isn’t…
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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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Stop coasting – the leadership growth framework that keeps ego in check
One of the greatest risks in leadership is not incompetence. It’s believing you’ve already arrived. The moment we start overestimating our skills, experience, or understanding, growth begins to slow. We stop seeking feedback and stop questioning our assumptions. We become more interested in protecting our reputation than improving our capability. In Ego Is the Enemy,…
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It’s more than just capability
Hiring is never straightforward. Time is spent fine-tuning job descriptions and ironing out contractual details. The focus is usually on qualifications—degrees, years of experience, technical skills. But what’s often missing from the equation is clarity: how well someone knows themselves, how they make decisions, how grounded they are in their values. Someone may tick every…
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Why should you be hired, if no one understands what you do?
Most service providers have such a low level of self-belief, they will jump to answer the “why should we hire you” question as if they were on trial. If this is you, understand that the work to do is not to figure out how to answer “what do you do?” The work is to figure…
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I will not die an unlived life…
The title of this post is the first line of a beautiful poem by Dawn Markova. I saw it in an Oprah Magazine and I typed and printed it out as a reminder that every day that I am gifted – must be lived. Yet for years I tried to live a carefully scripted life.…

