There are two kinds of work you can do as a leader or entrepreneur.

1. The work that pays the bills.
2. The work that feels like it’s trying to be born through you.

Sometimes they overlap.
Often, for a while, they don’t.

You might:

• Deliver programmes inside organisations whose behaviour you no
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Leading people is relatively easy when everyone is in a good mood, open, and willing to change.

The real test comes when:

• Someone you care about is deeply unhappy.
• They complain, blame circumstances, and feel stuck.
• You know there are tools that could help, but they either don’t see them or re
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There are seasons in a leader’s life when purpose stops being a quiet background melody and starts pulling hard.

You notice it in the invitations that come your way, in the energy you feel when you speak, in the rooms you suddenly find yourself in. You also notice it in the resistance that follows:...

When the world feels unstable, noisy, and increasingly polarized, the instinct for many leaders is to tighten control.

We:

• Double down on our existing views.
• Seek information that confirms what we already think.
• Defend our position as “the” right one.

It feels safer in the short term.
In th...

If you lead people long enough, you notice something odd.

Two leaders can face:

• The same market conditions.
• The same political climate.
• The same organisational constraints.

One experiences:

• A world of hard limits and fixed rules.
• A red zone of material cause and effect, and not much els
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