“Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” Michelangelo We are all sculptors of our identity, chiseling it with every life stage, decision, story, and habit, throughout our lives. Sometimes our form is very clear, and we have a good grip on it, sometimes it’s more fluid, sometimes, especially in transitions, it is fuzzy and confusing. Always evolving, always becoming, it has a will of its own toward wholeness. · Who are you NOW? · ...

Let’s say you’ve clarified your vision and have a great game plan. You’re excited and you feel the magnetic force that comes with knowing your big hairy audacious goal and how you’ll make it real. If you do a good job communicating your vision and you have the right people in the right places in the right bus, you might also have an energized, willing-to-perform team around. But life happens and it’s easy to lose focus, execute on urgencies and noise, and find reasons for why the execution...

The ability to make good decisions is one of the key factors that will lead to your company's success and your success as a manager. Wait… it’s not only about the quality of decisions, but also about how fast you make decisions based on insufficient data. “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70 percent of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90 percent, in most cases you’re probably being slow.” Jeff Bezos There are multiple decision-making traps one can...