
Here’s a question most leaders never stop to ask themselves: What do you want to be known for? Not your title. Not your résumé. Not the projects you’ve delivered or the problems you’ve solved. But the way people experience your leadership—what they say about you when you’re not in the room. Most of us have […]

When I was a CEO, I remember one particularly brutal week of year-end stakeholder meetings. The board wanted aggressive targets. My program partners were pushing for resources. My staff needed clarity on what was actually realistic. By Friday, I caught myself wondering: Did I just contradict myself? Did I say what each person wanted to […]