Posts Tagged ‘Personal Development’
Aisle. Up. Out. How Crisis Lessons Drive Career Success
The water doesn’t care how you feel about it. On January 15, 2009, I stood in the aisle of US Airways Flight 1549 as the Hudson River poured in through the back of the plane. I was the last passenger out. In the minutes after both engines failed, an old phrase took on a meaning…
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Seek the Mission First: The Miracle on the Hudson Survivor’s Case for Purpose Over Profit
I did not choose my mission. It chose me, on a river, on a Thursday afternoon in January, when I was the last passenger off US Airways Flight 1549. I had spent years building a career in enterprise sales leadership, and none of it prepared me for what I learned standing in that aisle. Five…
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Turn the Discomfort of Discipline into the Satisfaction of Success
Nobody tells you the discomfort comes first. They sell you the ending. Nobody shows you the middle part when you’re on the ground with a torn knee ligament. In a hospital hallway, there is no blueprint for what happens next. You cannot finish one length of a swimming pool. I have lived all three of…
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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 whole person operating inside the whole system. That gap is exactly what Don Trone, Dr. Sean Hannah, and I set out to close. The result is the 28-Cell Leadership Matrix, now live inside the Human Performance Optimization Framework. Twenty-eight cells,…
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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 stopped watching it as a movie. I started watching it as if it were my own life. Homer’s story begins right after the Trojan War ends. Odysseus should be able to go straight home to Ithaca. Instead, the journey stretches…
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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 fully understand. Restored means you go back to what you were. The original condition. The baseline before the disruption arrived and changed everything. Re-storied means you build something new from what you went through. Not back to before. Forward into…
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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 understand. Every result worth having made me wait for it. Not because the universe was being cruel. Because the waiting was the preparation. Because the season between the intention and the outcome was where the character was being built that…
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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 often. Not the logistical questions about the water temperature or how long the aircraft was in the air or what it felt like when the engines went silent over New York City. The question people ask themselves when they hear…
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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 it changed the direction of my entire life. I want to tell you what that gift was. But first, I have to take you back to the night everything changed. The Night of January 15, 2009 A few hours after…
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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 seventeen years building and teaching to leaders and organizations around the world. There was Disneyland. And a bear suit. And a lesson in human performance that I did not fully grasp until January 15, 2009, when I needed everything I…
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