By Steve Moran
Let’s have the conversation nobody wants to have.
What if it’s not the constraints?
What if it’s not the organization?
What if it’s not your boss, your budget, your staff, or your circumstances?
What if it’s you?
Not your intentions. Not your desire. Not your effort.
Your actual leadership.
The way you show up. The choices you make. The habits you’ve developed. The blind spots you’ve been carrying for years.
What if you’re the reason your team isn’t performing? What if you’re the reason good people keep leaving? What if you’re the reason the culture feels toxic?
I know you don’t want to hear this.
I know you’ve been nodding along for two weeks while I talked about constraints and finding your six inches of ground and being relentless about what you can control.
But here’s the thing: Sometimes the thing you can control is yourself. And sometimes that’s the exact thing you’re refusing to look at.
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