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Keep Working On Your Thing Until Persuasion Becomes Unnecessary
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Not everything valuable begins with knowing where it is going. Sometimes the work is to notice what keeps presenting itself, follow it without forcing an outcome, and know when you have taken it as far as you can. Rick Rubin is one of the most influential music…
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Are You Incapable of Selling, or Is It This?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We are remarkably quick to turn repeated outcomes into identities: I can’t sell, I can’t lead, I’m not cut out for this. But before deciding what the result says about you, it may be worth diagnosing the conditions that produced it. Sometimes we turn repeated results into…
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A Confused Mind Always Says “NO”
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: A confused mind says “no” because confusion makes commitment difficult. If I cannot clearly understand what I am being asked to decide, why would I say yes? “A confused mind always says no” is an idea frequently used in sales and marketing. The premise is simple: when…
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A Decision Does Not Contain a Predictive Component
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: A good decision does not tell us what will happen. It simply reflects the quality of the understanding from which the choice was made. What makes one decision better than another? When we make a decision, we are not saying, “I know what will happen.” We are…
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Beware: Systems have Delays
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We often expect system changes to produce visible results quickly, and when they do not, we can mistake delay for failure and intervene again too soon. The better response is not simply to wait, but to look for early signals that the conditions for the intended outcome…
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Knowing Enough to be Wrong
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We can know enough about a situation to develop a convincing explanation and still be unaware of what that explanation has failed to account for. The confidence created by partial understanding can be more dangerous than knowing very little at all. You can know enough about a…
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Some Things Are Worth Rushing. Others Should Move Caterpillar Slow
I was watching Landman. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a grounded, character-driven series set in the oil fields of West Texas. Less spectacle, more consequence. A show about work, power, family, and the long shadows decisions cast over time. The drama doesn’t come from twists. It comes from what people live with. In one…
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How to Master the Leadership Skills, AI will Never Replace
My friend Julie Winkle Giulioni recently recommended an MIT Sloan Management Review article which made a striking observation: AI has democratized knowledge so completely that “expertise” can no longer be defined by who has the answers. Because now? Everyone has the answers. The article argues that the true value of leadership is shifting — away…
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You Don’t Need to Know How to Reach the Goal—You Need to Know How to Prepare to Receive It
I’ve followed a lot of plans in my time. And after all that planning?…🦗Crickets. It wasn’t that the tactics were bad. It’s that they weren’t mine. They weren’t born from alignment. They weren’t shaped in a space of clarity and truth. They were just borrowed roadmaps for someone else’s mountain. What I didn’t know then…
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