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08
Oct
The Anxiety Isn't Yours (Until You Make It Yours)
Anxiety rarely goes where it belongs. It goes where it finds a place to land.
5 min read
01
Oct
Meanwhile…Warren Buffett, emeritus
Meanwhile is a shorter, wide-lens piece that runs between the main essays.
Warren Buffett is continuing his transition away
2 min read
24
Sep
Begin Again
You cannot stand outside your own reactivity the way you can stand outside someone else's. Nobody gets a balcony over themselves.
4 min read
23
Jul
What Communities Learn From How Leaders Leave
“A system does not need its leader’s summary of what happened. It needs the leader to leave.”
3 min read
09
Jul
Hope Without Illusion
"Hope without illusion holds the future loosely."
4 min read
25
Jun
Endings That Don't Resolve Cleanly
"Grief without a clear object does not disappear. It attaches itself somewhere, sometimes in quite surprising places."
5 min read
11
Jun
What Faithful Restraint Looks Like
"The community's ownership of its own decisions matters more than your preferred outcome."
4 min read
28
May
Power We Don’t Name Still Shapes the System
Most transitional leaders can recall the moment when they encountered the invisible wall of pillows that softly, but clearly, blocked
4 min read
14
May
Time Is Not Neutral
Most leaders think of time the way they think of weather. It's the condition you're working
4 min read
30
Apr
Leaders Matter But They Are Not the Story
There is a particular temptation that comes with transitional leadership, and it doesn't arrive as arrogance. It arrives
4 min read