The newsletter for professionals who want to lead with purpose and choose their next chapter deliberately.
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Great leaders don't protect people from accountability, they create the conditions that let them succeed. Stories of managers who got this exactly right, and others who didn't.
Have we gotten so obsessed with checking boxes that we're screening out the very people who could become exceptional? Drawing on three decades in recruiting: why curiosity and potential should outweigh yesterday's experience.
Stop waiting for the lightning bolt. A practical look at building a working sense of purpose from your strengths, operating style, and values, then testing what you learn through action.
Maybe purpose isn't something you need to find at all. The patterns already running through your career, what energizes you, where you naturally help others, may have been pointing toward it all along.
Why would someone deliberately choose pediatric oncology? Jeffrey Skolnik knew his purpose remarkably early. A powerful look at service, sacrifice, and choosing meaningful work even at extraordinary emotional cost.
Long job searches don't just drain your bank account, they quietly change how you show up. On rebuilding your signal and taking small, deliberate actions when uncertainty chips away at your confidence.
He walked away from a prestigious consulting career, joined the police, and became a leader known for building teams out of ambiguity. On curiosity, composure under pressure, and being wired to build what doesn't exist yet.
Julie Tsai took an unconventional path from political science and systems administration to cybersecurity leadership, and discovered that senior leadership is less about technical expertise than influence.
A layoff, reorg, or uncertain market can trigger panic, or force the career conversation you've been avoiding. On using disruption as a reason to deliberately reset your direction instead of just reacting.
Success, pressure, and authority reveal what a leader really values. Global security executive Matt Smith on the difference between leaders who protect their position and those who protect their people.
Purpose isn't just inspirational, it's practical. How clarity about who you are becomes a powerful filter for deciding which opportunities deserve a yes, and which ones don't.
What if you already have a purpose and just haven't recognized it yet? Deputy CIO Steve Januario's story on how responsibility, service, family, and leadership can quietly define a life before we ever name it.
A career can look successful on paper and still feel like it's going nowhere. The opening issue on why purpose creates the clarity to stop drifting and build toward something that actually matters.
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