A Field Guide to the Unruly Art of Leadership

Feral instincts, bold thinking, and breaking the rules that need breaking. Includes tea.

Who Are The Curious? How Restless Thinkers Are Changing Leadership adaptive leadership culture generative leadership leadership development resilient leadership seeds of potential Feb 01, 2025

 Some people have always known they were different—restless, questioning, wired for exploration. They never fit neatly into the leadership boxes offered to them.

Others learned to hide it. They adapted, put on the trappings of traditional leadership, followed the rules, played it safe. They did what was expected. And yet—something felt off.

If you’ve ever felt like there’s a different way to lea...

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The Seeds of Potential: Growth That Can’t Be Contained adaptive leadership inclusion integration intention leadership development seeds of potential Jan 17, 2025

Growth doesn’t happen in a straight line. It doesn’t fit neatly into a corporate leadership model, and it sure as hell doesn’t follow a five-step process.

Real growth—the kind that transforms you, stretches you, and makes you into something you didn’t even know you could be—is unpredictable. It happens in spirals, in surges, in moments of gut-wrenching doubt and electrifying c...

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Stop Bringing Cupcakes to a Fire: The Real Work of Building Trust adaptive leadership courage culture generative leadership integration leadership development trust Jan 08, 2025

Picture this: a team retreat in the great outdoors. There’s a roaring campfire, a trust fall lined up, and someone’s brought cupcakes—because who doesn’t love cupcakes? But there’s also a dog.

Not a friendly, waggy-tailed dog. This one’s growling, pacing, and snapping at anyone who gets too close. It bit someone earlier. It bit someone last year too.

You can pass out cupcakes, start the active l...

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Guideship: The Leadership Evolution No One’s Talking About adaptive leadership effective teams generative leadership guideship leadership development resilient leadership strategic mindset Dec 20, 2024

Leadership as we know it is incomplete.

It’s not bad. It’s not broken. But it’s missing something.

We’ve spent decades defining leadership as authority, decision-making, and vision. We’ve bolted on management to keep things running and, when absolutely necessary, thrown in a half-hearted nod to followership. But we left out one of the most powerful roles of all—the role of the Guide.

And withou...

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