Excellence has been a hallmark of my career. I am trained as a process improvement SME, have operations experience, and my doctoral dissertation was on performance excellence at the industry level. But as life and responsibility have expanded, excellence alone is no longer my primary goal. It feels heretical to […]
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Many high performers move through a familiar progression: from being reactive, to enhanced structure, to optimization. Early in our careers, life and work can feel reactive. You’re responding to what’s in front of you and doing your best with what you have. Then as you grow and mature, you often […]
In business, we understand that making emotional decisions isn’t good sense. That’s why organizations rely on structure. Meeting cadences, agendas, decision frameworks, and defined processes, for example. These mechanisms are not about control, they exist to protect the quality of decisions when pressure is high. Life, however, doesn’t operate the […]