Thoughts
Actionable insights for mission-driven leaders.
The Passion Trap: Why Monetizing Your Purpose Is Failing You
The most successful people I know aren't chasing their passion; they're building three distinct layers of career value that most of us confuse.
From Asking to Offering
There's this thing that happens when you're about to ask for something important. Your palms sweat, your voice gets smaller, you catch yourself apologizing before you've even made the request.
AI's Intelligence Problem
Traditional AI defines intelligence too narrowly. What if we expanded its scope to include emotional, social, practical, and community-oriented intelligence?
Picture AI learning "street smarts" from local vendors, or empowering communities to pool wisdom for collective economic growth.
Nonprofits and Relevance: Innovate or Perish
Nonprofits share a fundamental structural challenge: the client is not the customer.
Good strategy reshapes reality into a story people want to believe.
Strategy is storytelling.

