Dive into "Lessons from Life's Classroom: Mastering Business and Personal Growth" to explore how life’s challenges, mentors, and a sense of purpose have shaped one leader's unique path. This insightful article unveils how personal experiences and guidance from influential figures can not only pivot but profoundly propel your career and personal life forward. Discover transformative lessons that blend human behavior expertise with practical business acumen, equipping you for massive transformation in leadership and life.

If you want to know what a company, a brand will reflect, seek first to know the real seat of power. As we have worked with so many companies in our consultation work, and even as we now acquire companies or help them in their process of merging, we have had increasing reason to understand and honor these real seats of power.

A big part of leadership encompasses knowing your people, what they value, and helping them see how they get more of what they want by helping you or your company get more of what you want. And by leveraging this, you rise as an authentic leader, helping define your brand so that it can reflect what you want it to do.

Explore the intricate balance between adaptability and stability in effective leadership. Drawing from physics and philosophical insights, they delve into how dynamic and static elements are crucial for navigating the ever-changing corporate landscape. This thought-provoking piece offers practical wisdom for C-suite executives and business owners, illuminating the importance of embracing both change and constancy. Through compelling arguments and real-world examples, the authors demonstrate how mastering this balance can lead to unparalleled success in today's competitive business environment. A must-read for leaders seeking to thrive amidst complexity.

Pancakes From Scratch is a conversation series hosted by Ernest Comer III sharing powerful stories of our generation’s leading voices on commitment, perseverance, and changing lives. In a recent episode, Amit and Kumar shared profound insights into the strategic nature of everything and how leaders and businesses can be transformed by connecting with their authentic purpose.

In a world where leadership rhetoric often veers towards the impersonal and procedural, our exploration on the podcast, “Growing Your Business with People” invites a paradigm shift. Amit and Kumar delve into the core of leadership myths, intertwining the science of human behavior with the art of business.

Delve into the transformative power of strategic delegation, an art rooted in ancient wisdom and modern business acumen. By mastering delegation, you can elevate leadership, boost productivity, and foster a culture of collaboration. Discover how to purposefully achieve more in both business and personal realms by harnessing the time-tested and innovative strategies of delegation, including the influence of the digital age with AI and virtual tools.

Have you found yourself ‘shoulding’ all over yourself? One of the most common ‘shoulds’ we see in our clients is around ‘I should spend time with family’. Some have even heard (and believe!) the rumor that when it comes to relationships, both quantity and quality count. What if we told you that there is something even more important than either of those, that there is something that counts above both quantity and quality?

Productivity does not directly correlate with a decrease in employment hours. For most of the world’s productivity, it is not a pure product of # hours X # of widgets per hour. There is also a factor for engagement of the workforce. A worker’s engagement correlates directly with their perception that the job is helping them fulfill what they value most.

Time off is essential for mental and physical rest and rejuvenation. Taking time away from your work can help you engage your mind in different ways, leading to Eureka moments where you see problems and their solutions from a different perspective. At the same time, when you’re inspired and enthused by what you do, you’ll be less compelled to take time away because you’ll be empowered by the results of your efforts.

Challenges are essential for our learning, growth, and progress.. Without them, we may become complacent and overlook ways to advance our growth. Challenges are unique to the individual based on their values, prior experiences, and the stories we tell ourselves about those events. What one person sees as a challenge, another may perceive entirely differently.

Every choice, every commission (what you commit or do) or omission (what you omit or don’t do) has risks. One of the most important lessons about risks is that you can never eliminate them. At most what you do is attempt to transform them in such a way that the potential impact leads to a perception on your part that you will be more likely to get more of what you want and less of what you don’t.

I’ve witnessed interactions with Amit and senior leaders who have, along the way, decided that they’ve “figured it all out”. Often, in dialogue with Amit and Kumar, these leaders quickly move from entrenched attitudes and beliefs to emotional breakthroughs, transformative reframes and spine-chilling “aha” moments.

Our argument today is that EVERY situation in which we find ourselves is an instance of cooperation. And like Owl, we will work here to help you see how pervasive cooperation is even when you are, or might want to be, blind to its existence. We will argue that it is worth being “conscious” of how cooperation is occurring vs being “unconscious” of it.

Competition derives from the old Latin words ‘com’ (together), ‘petere’ (to seek). Two or more sets of people seeking out the same thing. It arises because of some perceived scarcity of resources. That perception is a key driver of our decisions and actions.

When it comes to life and relationships, we are all trying to build our own personal Rome. And if we want to make it work (even if we won’t get it built in a day), it is clear that we will require the involvement of others.

It was a curious sensation. To be quite so bone-achingly cold, and still to have a nose that felt as if it were on fire. Burning, itching, and surely just one final rub away from snapping off like an icicle. The frost on the inside of the windows was a grim visual testament to this horrifying state of affairs.

What is burnout? Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress.

Each of us has our own load, our own unique challenge, that in our own way we are carrying uphill. And if it feels like an endless, repetitive task that is never complete, then there is no quicker way to burn yourself out, physically and mentally.

Clarity of who you are, what you do, and what represents a fair exchange for your time and services is a vital part of being able to face the challenges that life brings. The words we use to describe who we are and what we do play a critical role in charting the trajectory of our service, and define your ability to grow and bring in new business.