The executives who find the steadiest path forward after a career disruption are rarely the ones who moved fastest. They are the ones who paused long enough to understand what actually happened, sat with it honestly, and came back with something more durable than what they had before. That theme came through clearly in…
This question keeps coming up in my conversations this year, and it keeps landing the same way. An executive spent twenty or twenty-five or thirty years building something real. They delivered results. They led people. They showed up every single time it mattered. And then the role was gone. The question I hear underneath…
A lot of the executives I speak with tell me they want something more stable. They want to know their income is stable. They want to feel secure about their professional future. That desire makes complete sense. But there is an important question underneath it that is worth asking: stable compared to what? I…
Before most people choose a business, they ask the practical questions. How much does it cost to get started? What are the projected earnings? How long until it turns a profit? These are good questions and I encourage people to think them through carefully. I had an interview with Chris Prefontaine, founder of Smart…
Almost every person who starts a business hits a difficult stretch early on. The income takes longer to build than expected. The work requires more energy than it looked like from the outside. And at some point, a consistent corporate salary starts to sound very appealing again. This is a predictable part of the process.…