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You Can’t Buy a Stairway to a Meaningful Life
What if one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded was never really about a…
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The Human Performance Optimization Framework: What the Miracle on the Hudson and Tony Robbins Taught Me About Anticipation
Most leadership frameworks measure one thing—skill, or style, or outcomes. None of them measure the…
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Strategic Effort Prevents Exhaustion: Robbins and Hudson River Lessons
I once worked eighty-hour weeks for an entire quarter and finished with less business than…
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After the Miracle: What Odysseus Taught Me
I sat in a theater watching Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and about halfway through, I…
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From Miracle to Complaint: A Lesson in Gratitude
Ten minutes. That’s how long it took for a miracle to become a complaint. I…
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Are You Being Restored, or Re-Storied? How Changing Your Narrative Builds Resilience
There is a difference between those two words that took me a long time to…
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Why Delayed Gratification Builds Leaders Who Perform Under Pressure
I want to tell you something that took me most of my life to fully…
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What Would You Do in a Crisis? The Leadership Lessons That Prepared Me for the Miracle on the Hudson
What Would I Do? That is the question. Not the one people ask me most…
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The Greatest Gift Tony Robbins Ever Gave Me
Tony Robbins would occasionally give me advice. He gave me something bigger than advice, and…
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The Disneyland Lesson in Situational Awareness That Helped Me Survive the Miracle on the Hudson
Before the Hudson River. Before Flight 1549. Before any of the frameworks, I have spent…
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They Were There When I Needed Them Most: What the Miracle on the Hudson Taught Me About Gratitude
I did not walk into Palisades Medical Center on January 15, 2009. I was brought…
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The Pen That Survived the Miracle on the Hudson: A Leadership Lesson in Affinity
I lost my Montblanc pen on January 15, 2009. It was my “closing pen.” The…
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