A CV is a highlight reel.

For all the successes that decorate a resumé, there are many more failures, near-misses, non-selections, participation medals, and rejection letters. Below is an abbreviated list of my notable career failures along the way to where I am now. The list is ever-growing, and the number of life-lessons therein ever-evolving…

What’s the big difference between a plan and a strategy? You never ever rely on a plan.

Problems are rarely as big as reactive stress suggests. Sometimes, it takes a serious wake-up call to remember that we make mountains out of molehills…

When the highlight reel of our success is blemished, it’s tough to share what went wrong. But there’s a lot of value to be gained from hiding nothing. A project management tool helped me understand why such transparency matters.

What can we appreciate from a family tree? And what does a walk among the branches of a life do for leadership? Two volumes of a famous genealogy, a birth, and a death all came together to help me reflect on these questions…