#16 Rescuing vs. Developing
Nadia had sent three reminders to Eli in two weeks. She filed it in her mind under the work of managing someone through a transition. She had been promoted to a senior VP role eight months earlier. She’d inherited the team, the product development function, and Eli, who had been her peer the year before. […]
#15 Commitment vs. Recommitment
The commitment was written in Mateo’s journal and shared with his team: I will loosen my grip. For three months, it held. He moved his one-on-ones to every two weeks and stopped rewriting proposals that were already good enough. He blocked Friday afternoons for building the deck he’d been promising his wife since their second child was […]
#14 Fear vs. Presence
Kenji had led teams for twenty years. Every autumn, he traded quarterly reviews for a guitar and played in a small band. And every year, without exception, the fear arrived a week before the first show. He could feel the tightness of his throat, the way his hands cooled, his heavy shoulders. For years, he […]