This post is about The Great Tragedy. The Great Tragedy is when your strategies and patterns work, and bring everything you hoped they would. In the beginning, you were simply light, born with a fundamental essence. More specifically, you were simply a set of ways of...

The concept of your Zone of Genius (and the corresponding zones of Incompetence, Competence and Excellence) grew out of Gay Hendricks’s book, The Big Leap. Gay describes the Zone of Genius this way: In this zone, you capitalize on your natural abilities which are...

Here’s the headline for this post: Once your fear has gotten you to mislabel it, it gets to have its way with you. Now I’m going to try and back into that headline, starting with this premise: Being a leader means working with fear. Leadership is almost never about...