One idea from the climb, every Sunday.

Whats the First Thing You Need to Build a Taj Mahal

Ambition may start the climb. Only purpose carries you to the summit.

The One Thing You Cannot Delegate

You can hand someone the words. You cannot hand them the truth about your own life

What Are You Climbing For?

The question waiting on a staircase I had not climbed in 36 years.

The First 90 Days

Authority arrives on day one. Understanding arrives later. Leadership lives in the gap between them.

When the Map Runs Out

The loneliness of the top gets talked about often. The loneliness of being the first rarely does.

The Standing Rest

The preparation that is invisible until, suddenly, it is not.

The Butterfly That Never Completes the Route

On what we inherit, what we add, and what we leave intact

The Altitude Problem

The Forest You Started In

A story about a boy who grew up picking leaves in a forest in Raipur, cleared the Indian Forest Service exam at Rank 91, and went back. And wh…