Three Steps to Increase Your Capacity for Action

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I wish I could do more.

I hear that statement a lot from leaders around the world. The demands on their time, their skills, and their presence are always escalating, always making it seem like there’s never enough of the leader to go around.

Usually, the emphasis is on the more in that sentence: I wish I could do more. More meetings, more coaching, more decisions, more vision-casting. The escalation is in outputs, checked-off boxes that make those around us f...