Leading in the Tension
Josh OrwickFor leaders who’ve achieved something meaningful and know success alone isn’t the end of the story. Weekly essays on ambition, identity, growth, and staying whole while building big things.
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I Know What Needs to Change. Part of Me Is Working to Stop It.
I made a promise to someone I trust. A small one. Then I broke it.
Then I broke it again the next week. And the week after that.
The person I made the promise to was me.
That alone wouldn’t be worth writing about. People miss thin...
I Know What Has to Die. I Haven't Let It Go Yet.
A burned match leaves behind almost nothing.
That’s what makes it such a difficult metaphor.
The thing fulfilled by fire doesn’t remain what it was before.
There’s a print that’s hung on my office wall for years. I look at it almo...
The Year I Mistook Depletion for Devotion
Some of the most confident things I’ve ever said were the places I went to hide.
Not lying. Hiding. There’s a difference, and it took me years to feel it.
A while back, a team I was on read a book together. A good book. One of thos...
You're Not Stuck. You're Carrying It Alone.
There’s a version of you that has quietly stopped believing anything can change. And you’ve made your peace with it.
I want to start with a picture.
It’s a few minutes before I leave on a mission trip. I’m sitting in a folding chair in a...
The Year I Optimized Myself Out of My Own Life
Michelangelo's unfinished "Prisoners," Galleria dell'Accademia. He believed the figure was always in the stone. The only work was taking away the rest. Photo: Galleria dell'Accademia
When something in your life starts to feel off, you alre...
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Executive Coach helping high-capacity leaders grow without losing themselves. Writer exploring ambition, identity, and wholeness. Husband. Girl Dad.
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