Tuesday
Nobody clapped when you answered that one email carefully instead of firing back what you actually felt. No one saw you choose patience with the barista, or when you took the extra two minutes to actually read the memo instead of skimming it. You noticed, though — that it didn’t seem to matter to anyone.…
Many leaders could recite their Tuesday one-on-ones from memory — who’s on the calendar, what carried over from last week, which follow-up you still owe someone. Ask the same leader when they last had a real, structured conversation with their spouse about how the week actually went, and the answer gets vague fast. Not because…
You already know who’s going to talk first in your 9 a.m. You could write the transcript before the meeting even starts — same opening line, same confident tone, same person filling the first thirty seconds of silence before anyone else gets a foothold. Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s someone else. Meanwhile the person who…
Most executives treat August like a waiting room. The inbox thins out, half the leadership team is somewhere with a pool, and the whole month gets filed under “slower” — which quietly becomes shorthand for “less important,” a stretch to survive until September’s real momentum kicks back in. A regional VP I worked with called…
You’ve said the words “I’m still praying about it” more than once this year — in a meeting, in a text to a business partner, in a conversation with your board. Some of those times it was true prayer, wrestled through honestly before God. Other times, if you’re willing to admit it, it was a…
Daniel’s calendar had back-to-back meetings until 6pm — a board update, two client calls, a hiring debrief he’d been dreading all week. Somewhere between the first and second, in a 45-second gap he almost gave to his inbox instead, he typed one sentence to his wife and hit send before he could second-guess it. It…
Stephanie handed the vendor renegotiation to her newest manager Friday afternoon with a one-line email: “This is yours now — good luck.” By Tuesday morning, the manager still hadn’t opened the file, and it wasn’t laziness. He had no idea what authority he actually had, what had already been tried with this vendor, or whether…
Marcus runs a nine-person accounting practice, and by 7 AM he’s already scanned five client email threads and glanced at yesterday’s invoicing report, filing both away without a second thought. This morning he opened his Bible app with the same reflex — eyes moving fast, hunting for the one line worth remembering — and got…
You had prayed about it. You had told your wife you were trusting God with the outcome. Then the meeting started and your grip on the outcome told a different story. Proverbs 3:26 names it. God holds what you grip.
Dominating a meeting is not authority. It is anxiety in a suit. There is another mind available to you.