Leadership & Organizational Responsibility Sometimes it takes leaving an organization to understand just how much trouble it's really in. I saw the warning signs from the inside. Now, I see the full picture from the outside. And what I see are organizations that need to stop. I don't think it's that the mission stopped mattering, but that continuing would do more harm than good. That's a hard sentence to write, and it's even harder to watch leaders refuse to say it themselves. There's a...

It’s early January, which means everyone is making promises to the calendar. Some of them are thoughtful. Some of them are guilt in a trench coat. And most of them get buried somewhere around mid-February, right next to that half-used planner you swore you’d “really stick with this year.” That’s why I think it's important to draw a clear distinction between two things we treat like the same thing: Goals and resolutions. Which, as per the focus of this article - aren’t synonyms. And if you...

January is when we all pretend the calendar has magical powers. New year. New goals. New priorities. New “we’re doing things differently this time.” And then by January 12, you’re staring at the same inbox, the same meetings, the same bottlenecks…just with a fresh Google Doc. I hate to break it to you, but a new year is not a reset. It’s a continuation. Which is not depressing. It’s just true. And if we start from what’s true, we can actually do something useful with the new year instead of...