Micah Jackson

Anxiety rarely goes where it belongs. It goes where it finds a place to land.

You cannot stand outside your own reactivity the way you can stand outside someone else's. Nobody gets a balcony over themselves.

“A system does not need its leader’s summary of what happened. It needs the leader to leave.”

"Hope without illusion holds the future loosely."

"Grief without a clear object does not disappear. It attaches itself somewhere, sometimes in quite surprising places."

"The community's ownership of its own decisions matters more than your preferred outcome."

Most transitional leaders can recall the moment when they encountered the invisible wall of pillows that softly, but clearly, blocked

Most leaders think of time the way they think of weather. It's the condition you're working

There is a particular temptation that comes with transitional leadership, and it doesn't arrive as arrogance. It arrives