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CoAxis Leadership CoAxis Leadership is a Generative Leadership consulting firm.

Through our innovative leadership programs and expert support, we make leaders and teams more effective, creating positive change with integrity and clarity of purpose. We address issues that impact: productivity, innovation, profitability, employee and customer satisfaction, dramatically increase your organizational effectiveness, enliven your teams and restore the passionate commitment that started you on this journey.

10/13/2026

In 2002, Amazon made its own engineering teams slower, on purpose. It became one of the most profitable decisions in company history.

Four years later, that same infrastructure launched publicly as Amazon Web Services.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Name one structural problem you're avoiding because fixing it will slow you down this month.

Most of us were taught that problems are a sign something's gone wrong. If things were working, we assume they'd feel sm...
10/13/2026

Most of us were taught that problems are a sign something's gone wrong. If things were working, we assume they'd feel smooth.

That idea breaks down the moment you commit to anything that isn't already likely to happen. The instant you commit to a real goal, you create a problem: how do we actually do this? That question isn't a flaw in your plan. It's what a real commitment looks like from the inside.

Developmental psychologist Jean Piaget found the same pattern in how people learn. Growth doesn't happen while a mind is comfortable. It happens when new information doesn't fit what you already know, a state he called disequilibrium, and the mind only grows by working through that discomfort, not around it.

If your business has no real problems this month, that's not necessarily good news. It might mean nobody committed to anything that mattered.

Got a problem you want to talk about? Please post below or send me a message.

10/12/2026

The Problem With Problems is That People Think, Having Problems is a Problem!

Leadership creates problems that then get solved. Nothing extraordinary ever happens without confronting problems, and it is dealing with problems that makes teams and people grow.

How to run a great meeting, Part 5:Before your next meeting, write down what actually has to happen. Then check every it...
10/12/2026

How to run a great meeting, Part 5:
Before your next meeting, write down what actually has to happen. Then check every item against two questions.

Is it attainable, something that can genuinely happen in this one meeting?
Is it measurable, so the room can tell, without debate, whether it happened?

Anything that fails either one isn't a result, it's just a topic. Cut it or fix it before the meeting starts, not during.

10/09/2026

The best relationships aren't the ones with no mistakes. They're the ones with the fastest repair.

Speed and honesty of correction, not the absence of mistakes, is what builds confidence with clients, colleagues, associates.

SOURCE Tronick, "Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development," 2007; Covey, The Speed of Trust, 2006.

COMMENT: What's a time someone repaired a mistake with you so fast it actually built trust instead of losing it?

PRACTICAL APPLICATION If you're behind on something right now, don't wait to be perfect. Say so today, name your fix, and follow through.

Think of the last meeting you sat in that felt productive while it was happening. Now, honestly: an hour after it ended...
10/08/2026

Think of the last meeting you sat in that felt productive while it was happening.

Now, honestly: an hour after it ended, could every person in that room have told someone else, in one sentence, what was actually decided and who owns it?

Most meetings fail this test quietly. They don't feel like failures, they feel like good conversations. The gap only shows up later, when nothing that was "agreed on" actually moves.

What's the tell in your world that a meeting produced a real result versus just a good conversation? I want to hear the specific signal you personally watch for.

CPR stands for Context, Purpose, Results. The name lists Context first. The actual work runs the opposite way, on purpos...
10/07/2026

CPR stands for Context, Purpose, Results. The name lists Context first. The actual work runs the opposite way, on purpose.

Start with Results: what has to happen in this meeting, and how will everyone know, without arguing, whether it did. "Have a good conversation about the budget" isn't a result. "Agree on next quarter's number and who owns each line" is.

Only once that's solid do you ask Purpose, then Context, the deepest question, last. Context invented first because it sounds good usually isn't real. Context found last, after the hard work, usually is. Send a message if you would like to know more.

Two things worth knowing before your next hire. Teams where everyone thinks alike tend to be overconfident, mistaking ag...
10/06/2026

Two things worth knowing before your next hire. Teams where everyone thinks alike tend to be overconfident, mistaking agreement for wisdom. And hiring star talent into a company without the systems to support them often makes things worse, not better, since talent needs structure to actually help.

Before you hire: what perspective is missing from the room, not just what skill? And is there an actual system for the right person to plug into, or just a title and a desk?

10/02/2026

250 years ago, the Alter Rebbe published a strategy to handle emotional regulation. We consider this a vital skill for leaders and team members in any organization. Unmanaged, emotions take over and leave no space for reason.

Think about your last team meeting where something real got decided.Honest question: does your team actually agree with ...
10/02/2026

Think about your last team meeting where something real got decided.

Honest question: does your team actually agree with you, or have they just gotten very good at agreeing with each other, and with whatever they sense you already think?

When's the last time someone told you something you didn't want to hear? If it's been a while, that's worth sitting with.

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