Taking responsibility and doing the right thing to help others is what defines a leader, celebrity doesn’t.
“I hope you are persuaded that our freedom, from the ever growing reach of rules and institutions, is inextricably linked to goodness. But for that to happen, more and more people have to choose the work to walk the path of goodness, rather than power. And that my sons, starts with us and the choices we make every day of our lives.“
I don’t always know who reads these posts, or where in the world they are from.
But if you’re reading this, I hope you are blessed with the gifts of a sturdy table, and a community that gathers around it, just as we are.
Even the best teams and organizations I’ve been part of underperform their potential. We can and should learn from failures. But we can learn just as much from successes with the right questions and approach.
Listening is a skill that builds character. To build the capacity to listen, I need to be comfortable with discomfort.
Death is one of the few things every single person on this Earth has in common. What if our politics were informed by the struggle with death we all have?
If we explore as artists do and introspect as artists do, we can practice leadership as artistry.
For sure, every person is capable of terrible things. But we, as men, don’t have to believe the delusion that we were born with a monster inside us. We have to stop believing that. We can build our identity as men around the parts of us that are most good.
I had a profound realization on a morning walk, on a perfect fall day.
My father taught me how to figure it out. I realize this now. And so there’s nothing to be scared of.
If listening is the key to love, relationships, and trust, choosing to show up is the key to listening.
The same forces that disrupted the macroeconomy - like the internet and globalization - are making a similar disruption to the management of firms.
Harnessing this disruption is critical - to ensure the growth individual companies, but also for the continued progress of society at large.
Lots of topics related to “leadership” are made out to be complicated, but they’re actually simple.
Culture change is an example of this phenomenon, it’s mostly just role modeling.
Thinking about how to treat aliens, helps us think about how we treat each other.
I cannot break my sons’ innocence early by asking them to dance with my heaviest emotions.
Memories decay quickly, instantly. And that makes being present, telling stories, and taking photographs so important. We have to protect the shards we have.
As your father, I promise to love you unconditionally and help you become good people.
My dream about light is making it, sharing it, and all of us finding a way home.
What has given me organizing principles for living is thinking honestly about what I would be contemplating in the waning moments of my own life.
If I choose to shirk responsibility, what am I?