Trebuchet Group

10/20/2026

This week, we're celebrating Natalie Fisher! We're grateful for her contributions to speedy assessments for clients, clear and accurate financials, and filling in to help the team run smoothly behind the scenes.

Congratulations on three years.

09/29/2026

"What's my job when someone else isn't getting theirs done?"

As leaders, we build companies on the idea that people do better work together than apart. So it shouldn't surprise us when our success gets tangled up with someone else's.

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As leaders, we build companies on the idea that people do better work together than apart. So it shouldn't surprise us when our success gets tangled up with someone else's.

09/28/2026

How do leaders set the context to open up these valuable sources of information and relationships?

Margaret Watts Romney and Chris Hutchinson connect to talk about real life challenges of leadership and how to be more curious.

This episode is for anyone who has ever been certain they were right, until suddenly recognizing we weren’t. You'll leave with a name for that blind spot and three concrete moves for inviting other people's reality into the room before you make the call.

Tune in here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speakership-in-the-time-of-change/id6783977316

09/16/2026

I learned this on a motorcycle: you don't stare at the rock, you look at where you want to go. Your body follows your eyes.

Leaders do the same thing without a motorcycle. Stare at the hazard and you'll steer straight for it. Look further out — at where the team is actually headed — and the small stuff has a way of sorting itself out underneath you.

09/15/2026

The thing that wrecks me is easy for someone else on my team. That's the whole point of having one.

A leader's job isn't to be strong everywhere. It's to build an environment where people's differences can actually come out — where your kryptonite is someone else's easy day, and you return the favor. You can't do that alone. That's the point.

09/14/2026

Showing up honestly is one of the rarest gifts you can give someone. Most people don't have an environment where they can be themselves and still feel safe.

That's a leadership job, not an accident. The teams where people can show up real are the ones where someone chose curiosity over judgment first — "what was up there?" instead of "that was weird." If you lead people, that choice is yours to make every day.

09/10/2026

I don't think knowing everything ever actually protected us from anything. I think it just built a box of constraints around us — one rule at a time, all in the name of feeling safe.

We tell ourselves if we just learn enough, plan enough, we'll finally feel in control. But each condition you add — I'll act once I know X, once I'm sure about Y — is another wall. Leadership asks something harder: move before the box closes in. The leaders who can do that, who trust themselves without total certainty, are usually the ones their people trust back.

09/09/2026

Before I try to fix anything, I ask what's already working. It's easy to jump straight to the problem and skip the part where you're still standing on solid ground.

Leaders who can name what's working, before naming what's broken, give their teams somewhere to stand. Panic spreads fast. So does steadiness — if someone in the room is willing to go first.

09/08/2026

Chris Hutchinson and Erin Hottenstein had a wonderful time with leaders at The Great Game of Business Gathering last week.

The conference was amazing: the energy and especially the people. It's inspiring to see how many leaders are working diligently to create opportunities where everyone in the company gets to make their best contribution and is part of the success.

08/31/2026

“If people just weren’t so peopley…” - followed by:

“…we could get some work done around here”
or “…my job would be so much easier”
or “…I could sleep better at night.”

When we hear things like this, it's a flag for us to get curious. Often, what comes next is finger pointing and blame.

How much are team members blaming each other, rather than finding ways to win together?

Read more in this month's blog post:

What do you do if everyone seems to point fingers instead of take responsibility for results?