Weekly Posts and Insights
Tyranny of the Urgent
The Tyranny of the Urgent is not simply a time-management problem, it is a leadership problem. It shows up when visible, noisy, emotionally loaded, short-horizon demands consistently displace slower, less dramatic, but more consequential work: strategy, talent development, culture, thinking, renewal, and the future. The tyranny of the urgent is the repeated surrender of mission-critical work to short-term pressures that feel immediate but do not deserve disproportionate control over attention, energy, and decision-making.
Lead at the Right Altitude (Stop proving. Start scaling.)
What am I still doing because it makes me feel valuable, but actually limits our growth and my effectiveness as a leader?
Most executives don’t struggle with effort. We struggle with identity. For many of us, our early career success came from outworking others, doing it ourselves, being detail obsessed and fixing what others couldn’t (or didn’t want to). Gold Star! That’s how we got here. But that same identity becomes dangerous at scale.