Leadership is about so much less than changing the world.

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Hello Reader,

This week I've been thinking about leadership and lollipop moments. Here are three things on that theme to turn overthinking into expert thinking:

• "As long as we make leadership about changing the world, we give ourselves an excuse to not expect it, from ourselves and from each other.” — Drew Dudley on Leading with Lollipops (6 min YouTube)
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• “You start by realizing that nobody can clean up this mess single-handedly, which is fine, because we’ve got roughly 16 billion other hands at the ready. All any of us have to do is find some neglected corner and start scrubbing.” — Adam Mastroianni on how to get a good heart unstuck: Part I and Part II
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• In 2025, those hands were busy. 97 ways the world got better, from Reasons to be Cheerful

For this week's underthinking link, spend 90 seconds in the quiet place. Thinking score: 4 out of 10, but ymmv.

Extra Thoughts…

I might as well keep going with sharing from my folder of articles I want to keep in mind through the year: We Should All Be Luddites reminds us of how they literally raged against the machine and why we need to keep doing it.

Final thought: as Drew suggests in Leading with Lollipops, maybe the biggest impact you've ever had on anyone's life was a moment you don't even remember. Which may be true for the people who said or did something small that made a pivotal difference in your life. What if you let them know?

With love, lollipops and rage,
Kim

PS. If you've the itch to do something, we should chat about it!​

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