Confidence is a product of success. With success, our confidence grows, enabling us to act with greater focus, efficacy, and intensity. Confidence encourages curiosity and fuels courage. It emboldens thinking and fortifies action. Confidence is a consequence of our intent to become. Frequently, our vision of the future is imprecise. However, we often possess the knowledge, competencies, and capabilities to plan, chart, create, or recalibrate paths to our desired future. Confidence helps us realize our futures. It strengthens our resolve and stimulates momentum, enabling coherence in thought and continuity of action as we press forward toward our future selves and evolving professions…

The business context of the 21st century is like no other in commercial history. Organizations of all types are being called upon to operate in increasingly complex environments characterized by changing leadership, increased entrepreneurship, and evolving employee-employer relationships…

Vulnerability enables intimacy. Intimacy promotes reflection, expression, and growth. Vulnerability as a weakness frames a strength. Vulnerability requires strength of character, openness to difference, and the courage to occupy an internal space that is disquieting for some and liberating for others…

In failure, we succeed. Our successes are chronicled in increased self-knowledge, awareness of limitations, and insights into the potential for growth and transformation. Failure and achievement are allies. They create conditions enabling us to be responsible for our decisions and accountable for results…