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“Looking Both Ways: The Janus principle for leaders navigating year-end transitions”

Dear Change Leader, Janus, the Roman god of doorways and transitions, possessed something most gods lacked: two faces, looking in opposite directions. One gazed backward, at the path traveled. The other looked forward, toward the road ahead. The Romans weren’t being whimsical. They understood something essential about transitions: you can’t move forward well without […]

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Why Your Team Watches Your Calm, Not Your Answers

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Leading with presence when you don’t have all the solutions Dear Change Leader, “I need to have the answer before I can talk to my team,” Jennifer said during a recent call. As a senior leader, she’d been dealing with shifting customer demands and three rounds of budget revisions in the past six months.

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The Transparency Paradox Every Leader Faces

What Leaders Fear to Say (But Teams Need to Hear)

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The Transparency Paradox Every Leader Faces Dear Change Leader, “I can’t tell them the whole truth,” Marcus said quietly. As Executive Director of a regional nonprofit, he’d been carrying difficult news for three months—uncertain funding, potential program and staff cuts, strategic questions about the organization’s future. “If my team knows how serious this is, they’ll

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Leadership In Action: Team Perseverance

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Addressing Collective Exhaustion Without Trying to Fix the Unfixable Your team is exhausted. This is a reality that is not discussed much. This is not simply the exhaustion that follows long hours or challenging projects. This is the bone-deep weariness arising from months, perhaps even years, of operating in stress mode. They’ve survived layoffs

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The Freedom to Not Know Everything

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What high-performing leaders discover when they stop trying to have all the answers Dear Change Leader, “Do you mind if I ask your opinion on something?” a seasoned executive asked me recently. “If you could share one thing that many leaders miss—something that could unlock a new level of leadership for them—what would that

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Leadership In Action: Optimism

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Finding Your Foundation When Everything Feels Unsteady The Resilience Paradox: Why Optimism Isn’t Optional Here’s what I’ve learned after years of working with leaders in crisis: resilience isn’t about being tough enough to power through. It’s about being adaptive enough to find solid ground, even when the landscape keeps changing. A seasoned CEO

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Seeing the Systems that Enable Everything

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How seeing systems reduces your overwhelm and increases your influence Dear Change Leader, “I kept thinking there had to be one key thing causing our retention problem,” explained David, a department head at a consulting firm. “I’d tackle communication, then discover it was workload. I’d address workload, then find out it was career development.

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The Perspectives that Shift Everything

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Dear Change Leader, “I thought I understood what was happening until I talked to someone in HR,” Marcus shared during a recent conversation. As Director of Operations for a growing tech company, Marcus had been wrestling with persistent delays in product launches. For weeks, he’d been focusing on what seemed obvious: the development team needed

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The Questions That Change Everything

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Dear Change Leader, “I think I’ve been asking the wrong questions,” Sarah confided during our coaching session last week. As VP of Operations for a mid-sized company, Sarah had been struggling with an impossible challenge: her team consistently missed deadlines despite working long hours. For months, she’d focused on one question: “How can we get

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The Long View: Building Personal Resilience for the Journey Ahead

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Dear Change Leader, “How do you keep going when everything feels impossible?“ This question has been on my mind in recent weeks as I’ve listened to leaders describe their experience of this moment. The challenges feel relentless. The uncertainty seems endless. And many of you are wondering how to sustain your energy and clarity when

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