Maybe things aren’t as broken as we’ve been told. Maybe we’ve just been standing too far apart.

Michelangelo said he didn’t create his sculptures. He believed the figure was already trapped inside the marble, and his only job was to chip away everything that wasn’t it. The statue was always there. He just revealed it.  Relationship psychologists borrowed that idea and gave it a name. The Michelangelo Effect describes what happens when the people closest to […]

When life gets loud, I don’t go looking for some big fix. I go looking for peace in small, doable things.

The kindest thing a workplace can do is notice early. A leader who asks a real question, who normalizes rest, who makes it safe to be human instead of flawless, changes the trajectory.

Here’s what nobody tells you about family businesses: Mom or Dad wasn’t just the founder. They were the buffer. The translator. The only reason those siblings could sit at the same table without it turning into a thing.

You can keep functioning and still be emotionally depleted.

Here’s the truth: 70% of organizational culture is driven by leader behavior. Not your handbook. Not your wall decal. You.

The research is clear. Under pressure, under time constraints, or simply out of habit, leaders consistently bypass deliberate thinking and lead from assumption.

He didn’t call a meeting. He didn’t open with a slide deck or a company update. He didn’t stand at the front of a room and talk about vision. He just walked the floor. James led a tribal nation’s aerospace manufacturing company. The entire enterprise existed for one reason – to generate revenue that took […]

End of quarter.THE LETI COMPANYLinkedIn Blog Series He started pacing first. Then came the cigarette. Then, somewhere between the culture data and the truth he didn’t want to hear, Mel lit a bag of fireworks under the boardroom table. I’m not joking. We were sitting inside what used to be somebody’s home. Mel had turned […]