You ran the team debrief. You sat in the room while the department heads walked through what held and what broke. You captured the near-misses. You wrote down the protocols worth keeping. You did the organizational work, and you did it well. There's one debrief you didn't run.The one where you're the only person in the…
Read MoreYou have been doing this long enough to know that the hardest festivals to lead are never the ones where the stage collapses. They are the ones where you do. Not visibly. Not in front of anyone. But somewhere in the…
Read MoreThere's a frog in boiling water that doesn't know it's in danger. You've heard the analogy. The water heats so gradually that the frog never registers the threat. By the time it's obvious, it's too late to jump…
Read MoreLet me ask you something most leadership books won't. Not what your values are. Not what they should be. But this: When is the last time your budget reflected your stated values — dollar for dollar? If you had to pause before answering, you're…
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