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Before You Update Your Résumé
When work stops fitting, the obvious next move is often to update your résumé and see what's out there. But for accomplished leaders, especially as careers and lives become more intertwined, a new job may answer the most available question instead of the most important one.
Finding Your Life Purpose: What Happens When the Pieces Finally Connect
What are you built for, and how do the pieces of your life fit together? A personal story about LifePlan, life purpose, and the clarity that comes from knowing yourself deeply.
When the Layoffs Are Over, the Culture Work Is Not
Job cuts may solve a budget problem. They can also create a culture problem. What courageous leadership looks like for the people who leave, stay, and lead through it.
A Productive Summer Your Team Will Fondly Remember
Engagement is down. Absenteeism is up. And summer is already here. It’s too late to redesign your workforce planning strategy, but it’s not too late to make this season mean something. Here’s what leaders can still do right now to create a productive summer atmosphere, and what to build for next year.
When the Business is Growing, but Your Life is Shrinking: What Founder-Led Companies Actually Need
Founder success shouldn’t cost your life. Here’s why growing businesses outgrow their strategy—and what to do next.
Four Truths About Changing Your Life (When You Feel Stuck)
What if that feeling that something’s off is actually the beginning? Discover four truths about personal transformation — and how to move forward when you feel stuck, and how to do so without losing your nerve.
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