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Why Leadership Growth Always Feels Uncomfortable
Nearly every meaningful opportunity in your career begins at what I call your growth edge.
That is the philosophy behind the name of both this newsletter and my podcast. Leadership growth rarely happens where we feel most competent or comfortable. It happens at the edge of our current ...
Jul 22, 2026
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Ignorance Isn't Bliss. It's a Leadership Liability.
Eight years ago today, I recorded the very first episode of the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast. At the time, I couldn't have imagined the conversations, friendships, learning, and opportunities that would come from simply pressing "record."
Over the past eight years, we've welcomed extraordin...
Jul 21, 2026
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Your Leadership Should Extend Beyond Your Job Title
For most busy professionals, the demands of their current role consume the vast majority of their time, energy, and attention.
That makes sense. Your role deserves your full commitment.
But if your organization becomes the only place you learn, contribute, and grow, your leadership c...
Jul 15, 2026
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Hard is Normal: Stop Interpretting Difficulty as Dysfunction
At some point, every leader encounters a season where things feel harder than expected.
The team is struggling. Resources are constrained. The decisions seem more complex than they used to be. Progress is slower than you hoped. The path forward feels less obvious than it once did.
In...
Jun 24, 2026
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The Leadership Blind Spot: How Insecurity Shapes Your Impact
Most leaders think of insecurity as a confidence problem.
In reality, insecurity is often far more subtle and far more consequential. It rarely appears as obvious self-doubt. Instead, it reveals itself through behaviors: the need to stay involved, the reluctance to delegate, the impulse to mo...
Jun 22, 2026
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Why High Performers Plateau
One of the greatest risks facing successful leaders is not incompetence.
It's certainty.
The experience, expertise, and confidence that help leaders advance can also make continued growth more difficult.
Over time, success has a way of reinforcing our assumptions. We become more conf...
Jun 17, 2026
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The Leadership Shift Most Promotions Don't Prepare You For
Most professionals spend years learning how to become exceptional individual contributors.
Then they get promoted, and discover that many of the behaviors that created their success are no longer the behaviors their new role requires.
The analyst becomes the manager.
The physician beco...
Jun 03, 2026
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Your Team Experiences Leadership Before They Experience Culture
Leadership can feel frustrating because so much sits outside your control.
You may not control staffing shortages, organizational priorities, reimbursement changes, budgets, or shifting market realities.
But leaders often underestimate something they do control:
The environment their...
May 27, 2026
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Where Self-Awareness Actually Comes From
Many leaders assume self-awareness develops naturally with experience.
It doesn’t.
As Stephen Covey famously observed, “Some people have twenty years of experience, while others have one year of experience repeated twenty times.”
Experience can reinforce patterns just as easily as ...
May 20, 2026
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Networking Isn't a Career Tactic. It's a Leadership Skill.
Most high-performing professionals don’t struggle with competence.
They struggle with connection.
Not because they lack relational ability, but because networking has been framed incorrectly, as something transactional, time-consuming, or self-promotional.
So they opt out.
They focus on exe...
Apr 06, 2026
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The Leadership Work of Repair: Navigating Missteps, Misunderstandings, and Misinterpretations.
In leadership, we often celebrate alignment, chemistry, and shared vision. We highlight the partnerships that “just work.” But what’s far less discussed, and far more instructive, is what happens when they don’t.
In a recent episode of The Curiosity Shop, two thought leaders that I admir...
Apr 01, 2026
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Failure Isn't the Problem. Wasted Failure Is.
Most leaders say they value learning.
Few have a system for it.
Especially when it comes to failure.
We:→ minimize it→ move past it→ or quietly carry it
But we rarely use it well.
And that’s the gap.
Failure isn’t what limits leadership performance.
Unprocessed failure is.
This week’...
Mar 25, 2026
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