The Twenty Percenter
Weekly advice for top business professionals.
The Competency Trap (3 Min Read) | Vol. 157 (3 min read) June 27, 2025 “What got you here won’t get you there.” – Marshall Goldsmith The Competency Trap In this week’s The ONE Thing podcast, I interviewed Brandon Turner. He shared something that was a mirror I didn’t expect. Brandon had just finished telling …
The Leadership Mistake I Made (and You Probably Do Too) (3 Min Read) | Vol. 156 June 20, 2025 “We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves”― Pema Chödrön The Leadership Mistake I Made (and You Probably Do Too) In 2017, I delivered …
The Red Sneakers Effect: How Strategic Nonconformity Builds Your Personal Brand (3 Min Read) | Vol. 155 June 13, 2025 “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” — Coco Chanel The Red Sneakers Effect: How Strategic Nonconformity Builds Your Personal Brand When Jenny Wood arrived for her interview on The ONE Thing …
The Dog Who Waited 9 Years (and Why You Shouldn’t) (2 Min Read) | Vol. 154 June 06, 2025 “A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.” — Harold Laski The Dog Who Waited 9 Years (and Why You Shouldn’t) Every morning at 6 a.m., Hachikō would walk his owner, Professor …
The Nocebo Effect – The Side Effects of Negative Thinking (3 Min Read) | Vol. 153 May 30, 2025 “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca The Nocebo Effect – The Side Effects of Negative Thinking I remember taking Gus to get his first round of shots at eight weeks. He was …
Reframing Leadership (3 Min Read) | Vol. 152 May 23, 2025 “This feels hard because it is hard, not because you’re failing.” – Dr. Becky Kennedy Reframing Leadership One of the best leadership books I read last year was Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy. Here’s the thing. It’s not a leadership manifesto or a …
Are You Living on “Clock Time” or “Event Time?” (3 Min Read) | Vol. 151 May 16, 2025 “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn Are You Living on “Clock Time” or “Event Time?” I lived in Paris for a few years after college. Every month or so, …
Is Your Check Engine Light On? (2 Min Read) | Vol. 149 May 02, 2025 “In an effort to go faster and outsmart the process, we turn to shortcuts, cut corners, and engage in short-term behavior. While it might seem like we’re going faster, these tiny debts accumulate into an anchor.” – Shane Parrish Is …
How to Host a High-Impact Hot Seat Mastermind (4 Min Read) | Vol. 148 April 25, 2025 “No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.” – Napoleon Hill How to Host a High-Impact Hot Seat Mastermind In May of 1968, the …
Shore Up Your Digital Bunker (3 Min Read) | Vol. 147 April 18, 2025 “Today, just over a decade since smartphones entered our lives, we’re beginning to suspect that their impact on our lives might not be entirely good. We feel busy but ineffective. Connected but lonely. The same technology that gives us freedom can …
