Most people try to improve performance by stacking tactics—visualization, positive self-talk, problem solving. Helpful? Sure. But the biggest jumps I see in senior leaders, managers, and individual contributors don’t come from more tactics. They come from a shift in...
In the early 2000s, British Cycling was a story of disappointment. Despite decades of effort, their performance on the world stage was dismal—only one Olympic gold medal in nearly 100 years, and a Tour de France record that was almost laughable. Sponsors didn’t want...
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” — Pablo Picasso For the past few articles we have focused on building...
We live in a world of constant demands — where urgent tasks often overwhelm the important ones. That’s why I created the Finding Your Flow through Attentional Leadership workshop: to give leaders and high performers the rare chance to pause, reflect, and realign. This...
As I’ve studied Flow—whether in individuals, teams, organizations, or even large-scale communities—one principle keeps showing up: what works at the micro level often scales to the macro, and vice versa. People influence things, others, and contexts—and in turn,...
“It’s a terrible thing to see and have no vision”— Helen Keller In every thread of human progress, there are common factors that support excellence—among the most important is vision. We hear this word so often that it can be fatiguing—if it weren’t...
