by Steven Fulmer | Jun 3, 2026 | Articles
By the time most leaders bring something to their teams, they’ve been living with it for a while. They’ve turned the idea over in their heads. Stress-tested it. Considered the objections, worked through the uncertainty, and arrived at something that feels...
by Steven Fulmer | Jun 1, 2026 | Articles
Most leaders can tell you exactly what they need to accomplish. Revenue targets. Team goals. Initiatives to launch, problems to solve, metrics to hit. They’ve thought carefully about what needs to get done and how to get there. Far fewer have answered a...
by Steven Fulmer | May 21, 2026 | Articles
There’s a version of confidence that looks exactly right from the outside. It’s decisive. It doesn’t waver. It projects certainty in situations where certainty is reassuring. It doesn’t ask too many questions, doesn’t invite too much...
by Steven Fulmer | May 13, 2026 | Articles
When anger shows up in a leadership context — in a meeting, in a difficult conversation, in a team dynamic that’s slowly deteriorating — the instinct is almost always to treat it as the problem. Address the anger. Defuse it. Move past it. But anger is almost...
by Steven Fulmer | May 11, 2026 | Articles
Every boat needs someone watching for danger. Someone who scans the horizon, notices the weather changing, and spots the rocks before anyone else does. Someone whose entire job is to ask: what could go wrong here? That person is invaluable. But you don’t want...
