The Twenty Percenter
Weekly advice for top business professionals.
The Freedom Audit: Declare Your Independence from What’s Holding You Back (2 Min Read) | Vol. 158 July 04, 2025 “Freedom lies in being bold.” —Robert Frost The Freedom Audit: Declare Your Independence from What’s Holding You Back Over the years, I’ve had hundreds of people ask me, “What do you think my ONE Thing …
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 …
