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What separates perennial champions like the NFL’s New England Patriots and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors from the contenders? It’s not necessarily the talent. Sure, both teams are led by future Hall-of-Famers. But the NFL and NBA are littered with stories of superstar “dream teams” that failed to live up to the hype. So what’s the difference? It’s execution.

You're drafting an important proposal to get to a client by the end of the day. But 10 minutes in, your phone starts buzzing. A text message notification.

Remember the story of Alice in Wonderland? In one scene, Alice arrives at a fork in a road, where she sees a Cheshire cat sitting in the tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” the cat responded. “I don’t know,” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter,” said the cat.

“I am always responsive to the expressed and unexpressed wishes and needs of our guests.”

“Our relationships are being starved to death by velocity. No one has the time to listen, let alone love.”

When someone asks you “How are you?” what’s your response?

A high-performing organization is like a living “organism”―a body comprised of many parts, each interconnected and essential for the whole to thrive.

Is an effective leader more like a chess master or gardener?

“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.”

This quote from Ryan Holiday’s bestselling book, "The Ego Is the Enemy," perfectly frames the battle that so often wages within us as leaders, though we don’t see or think about it at the time.

Patrick Lencioni, author of the perennial bestseller, "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable," put it best when he wrote: “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”