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#136 The leader's attitude

Happy Sunday, everyone. In a recent interview, I heard Jocko Willink diving into a few stories that influenced his best-selling book, Extreme Ownership. If you haven’t read it, the overall premise is — in any organization or on any team, all responsibility for success and failure resides in the leader.

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#135 The work mindsets

Happy Sunday, everyone. In addition to the “design + build + run” mission component of my boys’ robotics team, there is also an innovation project assignment. Its requirements include developing a “desirability, feasibility, viability” style presentation and creating a prototype for their innovation. At last week’s meeting, the team of four

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#134 The integrity pillar

Happy Sunday, everyone. We still have pretty young kids by most standards. However, as they’ve matured, my wife and I have introduced what we call “family pillars”. These are the foundational markers for what our family name, their name, stands for. Similarly, each of Calm Capital’s companies has

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#133 The listening house

Happy Sunday, everyone. I’ve written a good bit about listening over the years. Few developed skills are as impactful as listening. Becoming good at it makes you a better spouse, parent, child, business person, leader, … the list goes on. So when Song Exploder host, Hrishikesh Hirway, released his TED

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