Two weeks ago, in Hawaii, Kelly Slater won the Billabong Pro Pipeline contest, one of the world’s top surfing events. He’s 50 years old. As a surfer myself, I can truly appreciate the magnitude of this achievement. It’s as if a pensioner had just won Wimbledon or climbed Everest. For context, Slater’s co-finalist was theContinue reading “Age vs. Attitude”
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As a leader, your greatest power is to do nothing
Superheroes have had their day. In today’s world of exponential complexity, neither Batman nor Superwoman would cut it. To be able to run at lightning speed is nice, but will only get you to the wrong place faster. Sometimes, you just have to stop. Literally. Just do nothing. This is hard. Leaders have a biasContinue reading “As a leader, your greatest power is to do nothing”
