Rethinking Leadership Strategies: How are You Positioning Your Team for Growth?

Birds in a V formation carry insight on their wings.

We’ve all seen birds flying in a V formation, often assuming they’re just following a leader. But there’s much more at play—energy-saving teamwork, shared leadership, and clear vision.

What if your team could operate the same way? Discover how nature’s strategy for sustainable flight offers powerful lessons for leading with resilience and shared responsibility.

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Retainers and Retention: The Key to Organizational Alignment

There’s something about sitting in the dentist’s chair that invites quiet reflection. Maybe it’s the stillness or the vulnerability of the moment. As I sit here, I can’t help but think about the journey of alignment—how things, once out of place, can be gradually corrected with the right guidance and care. But the real challenge isn’t just the initial adjustment; it’s maintaining that progress over time. Curious where this leads? Let’s just say it’s a process that extends far beyond the dentist’s office.

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Somewhere between the Summit and an Unplanned Descent

Mountaineering teaches lessons that go far beyond the climb. As I ventured into the snowy wilderness with my friend and his brothers, each step brought challenges and fears, not unlike the ones we face in life and business. In those moments, when doubt and uncertainty crept in, I realized how crucial it is to have guidance and support—someone to remind us to focus on the next step and keep moving forward, no matter the obstacles ahead.

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A Spoon Full Of Smoothie

How many of our business practices resemble using a spoon for a smoothie when we could be using straws?

What practices do you need to question, update, and reintegrate?

What practices could you do away with all together?

After sitting down to slurp a smoothie and reflecting on these questions, I encourage you to open up to the insight passing beside you every day—your people—and simply ask, “What practices can we improve and how?”

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if you weren’t around?

Written by Tyler Head Yvonne Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, once said, “I wanted to build a company where when I left, my people would know who to call when there was a fire: the fire department.” He spent three months away each year, confident in his team’s ability to handle things.  Culture is the pattern…

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Vulnerability Cultivates Growth

vulnerability cultivates growth

Vulnerability requires practice. Endurance Training is much less about repetition (doing it exactly the same) and much more about consistently showing up to do it. Vulnerability, much like growing muscles, requires time under tension. Over the past year, I spent 4 hours a week under a bar doing back squats, increasing my overall 3 rep…

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Strategic Planning: Start Well, End Well

Strategic Planning for 2024

The new year is knocking on our door, and if you’re like me, you’re thinking about ending the year well. What I love about the end of the year in the good ole’ US of A is how we gather around tables with family and friends to eat and share stories. If your family is…

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The speed of relationship

Society beckons us to move faster, run harder, and produce more. So we invest in better software, the latest technology, and the next shiny thing that promises better results.  But I have a hunch. Maybe the key to growing your organization is learning to move at the speed of relationship. What does that mean? It…

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What is winning?

A few weeks back, I was at a sports complex with some close friends watching their children play rec league soccer.  Now, I know you may be thinking, what does rec league soccer have to do with growing a business, leading people, and developing my next leadership level. Let me indulge you for a bit.…

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