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Don’t Waste the Miss
Every CEO eventually gets a quarter that doesn't go the way the plan said it would. The best ones treat it as one of the most useful moments they'll get…
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Essays and field notes for PE-backed CEOs navigating performance, transition, and reinvention.
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The Energy You Bring Is Part of the Plan
Every plan has the obvious inputs: the strategy, the budget, the team, the timeline. There's one more that rarely makes the list and quietly shapes all of them, and that's…
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Start the Question Early
Most CEOs think their transition starts at the exit. The best ones started years earlier, with a single honest question.
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Acknowledgement Isn’t Alignment
You leave a conversation with your board or your boss feeling like you got a yes. Everyone was pleasant, heads were nodding, no one pushed back. Then nothing happens. If…
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Peace Is a Posture, Not a Destination
A lot of driven people quietly believe peace is waiting for them on the other side of the next milestone. It usually isn't, and that turns out to be good…
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From AI Strategy to AI Advantage
Almost every board conversation right now includes some version of "what's our AI strategy?" It's the wrong question, and it quietly sends teams chasing tools instead of outcomes.
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Clarity Comes From Distance
Ask leaders who stepped back from the seat what surprised them most, and a lot of them say the same thing: they could suddenly see the business, and their own…
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Build the Team That Doesn’t Wait for You
There's a quiet sign that a leadership team has come to depend on you too much: every real decision finds its way back to your desk. Two leaders disagree, and…
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Let Them Fly
There's a story worth sitting with. What happens to a butterfly when you put it in a box and close the lid? It suffocates.