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The lions will eat you for lunch
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You know how many times someone told me I needed to change? That I was too calm. Like, “Michael, that’s not how you show up in business. You’ve gotta have a commanding voice. You’ve gotta show dominance.” And for a while, I actually tried. And guess what? It worked. Kind of. Because it also didn’t work. It never stopped feeling wrong. It simply wasn’t me. That’s why I never stopped looking for a different way. Oh, what a rabbit hole that has led me into. Because once you start looking, you see it everywhere: → The quiet leaders who read the room instead of performing in it. → The humble ones who don’t have to prove they are right because they’re busy getting it right. → The thoughtful ones who bring calmness when everyone else is panicking. As I said, I’ve been told a thousand times that this wouldn’t work. That the lions would eat you for lunch. That you simply can’t walk into the arena with calm and reason when everyone else is armed with politics and power plays. They couldn’t be more wrong. My new newsletter “What the Best Leaders Say” is dedicated to the people who prove this. It tells their story. It shows how they lead. And it goes deep to surface how you can too. It’s going to launch soon and if you’ve ever wondered whether there’s a place for calm and kind in leadership, I think you’re going to absolutely love it. Click here to join the waitlist and get advance notice when it launches. Keep lighting the path, __ Bringing people together for an event? My keynotes are sharp, respectful, and often unexpectedly personal. They give your audience insights they can act on. |
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Observations on how the best leaders light the path. Bi-weekly premium essays on “What the Best Leaders Say” and free daily posts on “The Art of Communicating”
In a few days, my new project “What the Best Leaders Say” will launch. I thought it would be fun to look at the opposite first. The things they never say. What makes this list interesting to me is that most of it sounds reasonable at first sight. Human even. Like, this is a caring person. But in my experience, it often achieves the opposite of what was intended. Worse, I’ve even sometimes seen them being used to manipulate. To give the appearance of calm and clarity while the reality is...
What the Best Leaders Say Issue 1 Welcome to the first edition of What the Best Leaders Say. If you’ve been following my work for a while, you know that I’m not interested in convenient truths. I’m interested in helping people who care say what matters in the clearest way possible. Even if it’s inconvenient. Even if it’s difficult. Heck, even if it hurts. I wholeheartedly believe that we can’t leave the world to those who care less. Or those who communicate carelessly. We need people like...
I get it: The world doesn’t need another newsletter.But you know what? I don’t care. I launch one anyway. I want a place where I can go deep. Much deeper than in my usual posts. Where I can write the kind of pieces I wished existed when I was trying to make sense of leadership myself many years ago. A place where simplistic hacks are unwelcome. Because we value profound answers over quick ones. A place where we don’t stop at the recipe but try to understand why it works, where it works. And...