Leading Off the Beaten Path

Leadership is not always about the sweeping gesture or the major announcement. It is more often about the tiny, intentional acts that shift the mood in a room, the direction of a team, or the belief someone holds about themselves.

The Butterfly Effect of Good Leadership

Let’s be honest, too many leaders are stuck in the Jurassic era.

Let’s be clear—being authentic and blurting out every thought in your head are not the same thing.

If you were running your life like a business, would you promote half the people in it? Would you keep the energy vampires on the payroll?

We’ve glorified the idea of constant collaboration and calendar chaos as if that somehow equals productivity. Spoiler alert: it does not.

If your idea of HR is someone who plans birthdays and orders the snacks, congratulations—you’ve confused “morale booster” with “strategic necessity.”

But let’s not pretend that a two-hour workshop is going to magically un-poison your workplace.

Listen, no one has ever said, “Wow, I loved reading that policy manual. What a page-turner!”

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Handbooks that read like legal documents written in 1872 aren’t helping your team.

Let’s be blunt: your culture isn’t toxic because you forgot to throw a holiday party.

And sure, being kind is important—but let’s not confuse kindness with sugarcoating.

I’ve had to walk away from a few jobs and partnerships over the years—one even very recently.