In leadership, relationships matter more than we often realize. Yet many of us wait too long to express gratitude to the people who have influenced, encouraged, and shaped our lives. Inspired by a conversation with University of Oklahoma Vice President Matt Rom, this reflection explores what he calls the “eulogy problem”—our tendency to say the most meaningful things about people only after they’re gone—and challenges us to tell them now.
Keeping a sense of wonder at the magic of the everyday.
Gratitude has been on my mind lately, I guess, judging by my newsletter.
This week I was thinking about it in the context of perspective, with the help of our 3-legged cat and 14-year-old dog.
Gratitude isn’t soft. It’s strong. And it may be one of the most underutilized tools we have in leadership today.
And at the end of the day, it changes how we see the world.
Life has a way of throwing challenges at us when we least expect them.
I spoke on resilience at a recent annual symposium for financial planners, and was reminded of this truth. Resilience is a topic that I wasn’t speaking on at all four years ago, and now it is requested by audiences more and more (as it was here).
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