“By championing Inclusivity, organizations gain a competitive edge because they can attract top talent, loyal customers, and long-term partnerships—all of which grow the bottom line.”

Embracing crescendos requires you to walk through fear and the unknown. Crescendos require Courage. Crescendos require you to give up control in exchange for faith. Pay attention to these moments and the decisions that follow them. When you summon the Courage to embrace a crescendo, you purposefully choose to move into discomfort and find your way back onto the path you were meant to travel.

I am introducing the Courage Touchstone by sharing this story, not because jumping out of a plane takes Courage. But because accessing Courage requires you to walk through things that scare you.

Leaders do what is right, not what is expedient. ~Principal #5—Crescent Leadership Manifesto

“Pull a thread here, and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.” ~Nadeem Aslam

In the past few years, the business landscape has changed at a rate more rapidly than at any other time in history. Unfortunately, with the Fourth Industrial Revolution upon us, organizations' internal workings, including how we lead people, haven’t broadly changed in response.

There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. ~Amanda Gorman

We are a reflection of our life experiences. But it doesn’t matter if those experiences are good or bad. What matters is how we interpret and use those experiences to shape our future actions.

“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” ~Jim Watkins

I often hear the phrase, “have an attitude of gratitude.” But a grateful attitude doesn’t go far enough to evoke gratitude's positive, neurological, and physiological effects. Demonstrating gratitude is an action, not a mindset.

We are, and will forever be stuck with 24 hours in a day. Trying to do more... and more... and more... with an unchanging space of time is the very definition of ignorance. The most common mistake made by Leaders of people is this—working an employee to the point of exhaustion does not lead to more productivity and higher performance. In fact, working late hours, and long days, with no truly focused time to recenter and recuperate, catastrophically impairs high performance.