Short, honest reads on leadership and growing as a person — the kind you can actually use the same day. No jargon, no ten-dollar words. Just plain talk from the factory floor.
Why we write these
Most leadership writing is built to impress. Ours is built to help. Everything here is meant for a regular person with a regular week — a busy parent, a shift worker, a young person just starting out, a manager who never got trained to manage. If a piece can't be understood by anyone with an eighth-grade education and put to work by Tuesday, it doesn't go up.
We write about the stuff that actually moves a life: leading yourself before you try to lead anybody else, the small daily habits that quietly change everything, and the truth that leadership was never about a title. New pieces get added as we go — think of this as the front porch, not the library. Pull up a chair.
Forty years of fixing equipment taught me one thing about failure that has almost nothing to do with equipment.
Read it →Everybody wants to lead other people. Almost nobody wants to do the quieter, harder job that has to come first.
Read it →Three little words I coach by. They're simple on purpose — the simple ones are the hardest to actually live.
Read it →Every Wednesday at 7:00 PM we do 45 free minutes of exactly this kind of growth, together, on Google Meet. Come as you are.
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