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Seth Wickersham has worked as a sportswriter for ESPN for 18 years, mostly covering the NFL.

Football is a sport he has loved all his life. He told a story about trying his hand at it when he was you...

“Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the u...

In the introduction to this series on Leadership mastery, I asked the question, Why Isn't It You?   Why aren't you your favorite leader?

I talked about an approach a music teacher friend uses to nudg...

Many clients have come to me and said they want to be Partner or a VP or a C-suite leader. 

And I love it when they do.  Drive like that can be harnessed...for all sorts of things.

After trying to u...

In the Marine Corps, there's an expression: A commander can be forgiven for being defeated but never for being surprised.

~Jake Auchincloss

This is the second installment of strategies leaders ...

In the Marine Corps, there's an expression: A commander can be forgiven for being defeated but never for being surprised. 

~Jake Auchincloss

This is a continuation of the "boiled frog" discussio...

I fell in love with Caravaggio's art on a trip to Rome thirty years ago. 

And my favorite work of his is The Calling of St. Matthew, pictured with this article. A knock-off even hangs in my house....

Its origins are debated.

Its also been criticized as being scientifically inaccurate.

Yet still the "boiled frog" metaphor persists.

It persists because it carries a powerful message about our awar...

This is Part 2 on what differentiates the approach I've used to help nearly a hundred executives make the most effective First Hundred Days starts of their careers.

Part 1 highlighted the game-changi...

When I set out to build my First Hundred Days & Beyond program, I wanted it to have as many reusable tools as possible.

Not just for the sake of having reusable tools, but because my years of experie...

In the final article in this series, I'm going to return to a quote I started with in the overview:

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

 ~John Shedd

Beyond the safety of th...

This is the fifth in series about psychological safety and teams.

Here is the overview:  Emphasizing Psychological Safety Likely Undermined Team Effectiveness.

In Part 2, I argue there is little to ...