Competent leaders. Competent teams. Competent hires. We hear about competency all the time in business. But most of the time, when someone uses the term, they’re talking about something else: potential, credentials, personality. The word “competent” sounds legitimate, even objective. But in ...
If you want to build a great company (not just a “good enough” one, but a truly great one), you eventually run into this hard truth: Heroics don’t scale. It’s easy to celebrate the person who pulls the all-nighter, saves the client, or jumps in last-minute to close the deal. Those moments feel ...
We’ve all been there: You explain your position clearly (maybe even brilliantly), and instead of agreement, you get resistance. When someone pushes back, especially when the stakes are high, it can feel like they’re not listening. But more often than not, they are. They’re just not agreeing with ...
