Humans are driven and directed by stories. The more deeply we believe in and feel the veracity of the story we tell ourselves, the more we behave in a manner that will realize that narrative.

Here are some conclusions we collectively accept, but in other cultures and/or other times the opposite was standard practice.

When these three intelligences are aligned, leadership stops being positional. It becomes cultural: a shared capacity to sense reality clearly.

Applying new knowledge can't happen if we're holding onto what worked in the past.

Conflict carries a dichotomy: avoiding it comes at a greater cost than not. It's the Universe’s way of saying “level up or be leveled.”

Few principles are truer than the idea that we don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

Because this phenomenon can’t be observed, tested, or measured, it's shunned by science. Yet significant anecdotal evidence supports it as real.

If we want to change what we see, we don’t start by changing the world. Instead we change our lens.