“The first stage of leadership is blurting. The second stage is responsibility.” — Jodi Jan Larson I was frustrated. I’d been doing a lot of work to be more authentic — to share with my team, and my leaders, about what was really going on. They’d been pointing to me...

There’s a thing you want — you knew you wanted it almost immediately upon hearing about it. It’s not a thing like a piece of candy or some protein or a beer (is “protein” really the best example I can come up with there?). It’s a want that’s deeper than that. You want...

I can see the fear, sitting just on the horizon. The same place that fear always sits. It’s the fear of creating harm. If I really shed all of the control, I will create damage. If I release these chains, some self-imposed, some taught to me by those that loved and...