What's powerful and necessary is that I can ask these hard questions of myself but most importantly I can ask them of my team directly and I know what I will get back is their truth…

Remember that bravery and struggle can only exceed our capacity when we fail to offer or accept empathy and love for ourselves. If we want to make a real difference, we must offer this to ourselves first.

So my call out to you all, as we relentlessly throw out hashtags of hope, is that before we can actually be #bettertogether, we must take stock of why that’s been so difficult, so far.

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The “highly competitive”, are currently immersing themselves in that very challenge. The easy work or lowest hanging fruit is to identify those people with Hope (the forecastable “Haves”)……

So right now, we are looking at the sales numbers, as the economy is parted like a sea of haves and have nots and many businesses are left with a common non-negotiable, we better find out who even can buy our sh!t

Further, what isn’t commonly known is that the very title of this work has been contested. The Art of War is considered by many to be The Art of Strategy….