by Steven Fulmer | Sep 17, 2026 | Articles
Most conflicts in organizations aren’t actually about the problem. They’re about who caused it. The moment something goes wrong, a familiar sequence begins. People start positioning. Protecting. Explaining why the thing that happened wasn’t their...
by Steven Fulmer | Sep 10, 2026 | Articles
Here’s something I didn’t previously know about satellites. A satellite orbiting Earth isn’t hovering. It’s constantly falling toward the planet — it just happens to be moving fast enough, and from a distance high enough, that as it falls, it swings...
by Steven Fulmer | Sep 1, 2026 | Articles
One of the questions I get most often — not from executives, but from the people around them — goes something like this: I can see that something isn’t working. I think my leader needs to hear it. But I don’t know how to bring it up without making things...
by Steven Fulmer | Aug 20, 2026 | Articles
In a recent post, I wrote about leadership as a story — and more specifically, as a genre. The kind of culture you’re building, the way people experience working alongside you, the emotional environment you create without always realizing it. All of it adds up...
by Steven Fulmer | Aug 13, 2026 | Articles
If you had spinach stuck in your teeth after lunch and didn’t know it, would you want someone to tell you? The answer is always yes. Every single time. I have never once had someone say, “No, I’d rather walk around like that all afternoon than feel...
