Most career transitions don’t fail from lack of ambition— they fail because people don’t have the systems and the support networks to carry them through the hardest parts.

Learn how GLP-1 medications reveal three systems thinking principles that every leader navigating change should understand

Pausing is not rest; it’s capacity-building, the space where psychological, emotional, and relational growth takes root.

Once pressure exceeds our ceiling, decline is inevitable. But in leadership today, the ceiling isn’t fixed. It can be raised, if leaders expand their adaptive capacity. And that expansion is a choice.

Once pressure exceeds our ceiling, decline is inevitable. But in leadership today, the ceiling isn’t fixed. It can be raised, if leaders expand their adaptive capacity. And that expansion is a choice.

This edition explores the midlife mirror — the moment when achievement meets questioning. Drawing on Arthur Brooks’ second curve theory, we look at why strivers risk unhappiness and how to pivot toward wisdom, teaching, and fulfillment.