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Assessing Trust

By Josh Nicholls
April 27, 2023
3 Min Read
In Leadership
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The boom of AI has changed the way people all around us are seeing the world. This is not another thought about AI, and not even one about trusting AI but rather on the impact of speed and cost on making the progress we want to make as leaders. 

I learned from Steven M.R. Covey a simple idea about trust that became real to me as I pondered the age of AI and the pace of innovation. The idea is that trust accelerates progress (and business) and there is a simple heuristic we can follow to assess the level of trust in our families, communities, teams, or organizations.

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Finding The Work You Are Meant to Do

By Josh Nicholls
February 15, 2023
2 Min Read
In Leadership
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This week we delivered an event designed to help leaders dig deep into who they are, why they work and how they can use that as a filter for making decisions.

The experience is deeply impactful and for some life changing. One of the things I learned this week is about our orientation in leadership.

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How Do You Seek Validation for Your Life’s Work?

By Josh Nicholls
October 29, 2022
2 Min Read
In Leadership
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A few weeks ago, I attended an art exhibit based on the works of Vincent Van Gogh. The exhibit was fascinating. In a massive room of four blank walls, they had set up triangular columns with mirrors from floor to ceiling, benches were scattered throughout the room and dozens of projectors filled every square inch of the room with the art of Vincent Van Gogh.

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Standards

By Josh Nicholls
August 12, 2022
3 Min Read
In Leadership
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I recently attended a talk given by Noelle Pikus-Pace who won the silver medal in the sport of skeleton at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Before she got into skeleton, she was dedicated to becoming a collegiate athlete in track in field. Noelle competed in the decathlon which is an event that covers ten track and field events including the high jump and pole vault.

The jumping events have a horizontal bar held up by two poles called standards. The standards mark the height of the bar and when the event begins the standards move up as jumpers clear the bar. The standards and bar never go down throughout the competition, once they are set, they only go up.

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Why Are You Here on Earth?

By Josh Nicholls
May 9, 2022
2 Min Read
In Leadership
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This week I had a conversation with a colleague that helped me uncover a blind spot I had. I have been studying and thinking about what I have been calling “purpose driven leadership”.

The concept is this. When you do the hard internal and personal work of why you are here on the planet you have discovered your purpose. This is much larger than just one area of your life. It encompasses all that you must contribute to the world.

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Life Alignment

By Josh Nicholls
September 29, 2021
2 Min Read
In Leadership, Self Discovery
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My family and I love to go hiking. Regardless of where we hike, if there are rocks on the trail you will inevitably discover cairns along the path. For those unfamiliar, a cairn is a stack of rocks on top of each other balancing in a statue like shape. They are beautiful, peaceful, and often look impossible or against the laws of nature.

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Josh Nicholls

I teach and invite people to act. Proud husband, father and amateur pizzaiolo

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