The Battle for the Schoolyard: How a Fourth-Grade Protest Shaped My Leadership Voice

Some childhood memories fade into pleasant background noise. Others remain vivid because they mark the first moment you realized you could influence the world around you. My first taste of advocacy came in the form of a schoolyard—specifically, the part of it that suddenly disappeared.

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When the Best Salesperson Becomes the Bottleneck

Because the solution might not be another marketing campaign or quota push. It might be time to introduce experienced leadership—fractionally or otherwise—to build the structure your best people deserve.

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The Missing Soldering Iron: Why Letting Go of Old Tools Makes You a Better Leader

Some childhood passions shape your identity more quietly than others. Mine came with the faint smell of melting solder and a workbench scattered with resistors, capacitors, and wires that always seemed just a little too short. Those early experiments didn’t turn me into an engineer—but they left me with a lifelong appreciation for building things that actually work.

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The Ship I Never Sailed: A Childhood Hovercraft and the Leadership Lessons It Left Behind

Some lessons arrive wrapped in success. Others show up as unfinished projects sitting on a workshop table, humming with ambition but lacking the pieces to move. This story is about the latter—and why it has shaped how I operate as a business leader to this day.

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The Bike I Couldn’t Fix: Why Leaders Need Better Tools Than Determination Alone

Some childhoods are measured in school years or summer vacations. Mine could just as easily be measured in kilometers pedaled. My bike was my freedom machine—reliable, fast, and always in some state of disrepair.

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The Hidden Joy of Meeting Founders in the Niches

There is a daily front-row seat to the extraordinary creativity of entrepreneurs. Every day, I meet founders who didn’t just see a gap in a market—they saw a market where others saw nothing at all.

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The Crossroads Story: When Founder-Led Sales Hits Its Limit

That milestone feels like proof that everything works: the product resonates, customers are buying, and growth seems inevitable. Yet for many founders, it’s exactly when sales momentum stalls.

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Flipping the Script on the Job Search

The traditional résumé is basically worthless. Not because people aren’t accomplished.
Not because experience doesn’t matter. But because the language of résumés has become generic to the point of emptiness.

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When a Lead Gen Trial Goes Sideways – Don’t Waste My Time

Every entrepreneur eventually learns the hard way that “trial” doesn’t always mean “test under realistic conditions.” Sometimes it just means “a trial of your patience.”

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