Author: Mike Schott

What is the melody line of building intuition?  Reps.  Chester outlined a Mothers reps. How did BK build his? Driving the streets, speaking with people from all walks of life, studying micro and macro trends, testing and iterating for 20 years and voila Gravity sprouts. Reps. How has Tom Brady become one of the greatest … Continue reading Day 176: Intuition…

I just finished up a nine hour offsite being with a team that’s led by a leader who embodies the definition of one who can be with and be the man.   He listens with an open mind and heart in a way I have rarely seen in rooms such as this. He empowers his … Continue reading Day 175: Be with and be the man…

Identity is one tricky beast isn’t it?   I had a powerful practice with a team this morning that is struggling with their identity as a team. They are managing through a “divorce” of a legacy product they put their whole heart behind to fully focus on a fresh bigger, bolder vision.   They identified … Continue reading Day 174: Genuine objectivity…

Truer not tougher is magic.  I believe people, including me, have struggled to hit people with hard truth in the moment because they bifurcate the decision to do so into two categories. Am I just being tough for tough sake? If so, why am I taking that path?Is the conversation tough because you truly believe … Continue reading Day 173: Truer…

It's Monday morning. A fresh week to win. Or is it? Look at your calendar for the next 7 days.  Look at everything you and others put on your plate for the week ahead. Take a minute and analyze, how many of these meetings/activities/to-do items are playing to your version of Messi’s left foot?  Are … Continue reading Day 172: Messi strong…

I remember the first time I took strengths finders and it spit out a term that resonated perfectly with how I wanted to spend my life: activator. I had never heard this term before but it now anchors my OPUS and is the strength I lean into above any other.   Activating people and ideas … Continue reading Day 171: Stronger…

This week a client and I circled back to some discovery work to go a layer or twenty deeper. We picked Question 17 at random that turned into 90 minutes of pure magic. What is question 17 in discovery? “What are your “internal questions” that you constantly ask yourself and how do they shape your … Continue reading Day 170: Learning…

How can you measure ones awakeness? How do you measure your orientation, or alignment? How do you stoke it to a 4x level? I just got home from an 8-hour round tripper up to Detroit to be with a team that is becoming awake and on fire.  We started by reorienting this team of 11, … Continue reading Day 169: Awake and oriented times four…