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Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

How to lead with the "ebb and flow."

Is it the task, the team, or the toxicity?

Apr 10, 2026

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6 min read

Is it the task, the team, or the toxicity?

If you don't give a Disruptor a project, they'll find one.

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

If you don't give a Disruptor a project, they'll find one.

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

Build The Team

How to lead with the "ebb and flow."

Motivation, flexibility, and one of the most common mistakes that leaders make.

Val Porter Cook

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Build The Team

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

How to lead with the "ebb and flow."

Motivation, flexibility, and one of the most common mistakes that leaders make.

Val Porter Cook

Start With You

Apr 10, 2026

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6 min read

Is it the task, the team, or the toxicity?

These are three very different problems, and they require three very different responses.

Val Porter Cook

Build The Team

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

If you don't give a Disruptor a project, they'll find one.

And you might not like what they pick...

Val Porter Cook

Start With You

There's no such thing as a “natural born leader.”

Apr 10, 2026

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4 min read

There's no such thing as a “natural born leader.”

The people who look effortless under pressure aren't born that way. They've just done the work you haven't seen.

Val Porter Cook

Start With You

A leadership lesson from Lyndon B. Johnson.

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

A leadership lesson from Lyndon B. Johnson.

Everything can look "good on paper," but sometimes that just isn't good enough.

Val Porter Cook

Build The Team

Why the "gifts" you give to your team may not be landing.

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

Why the "gifts" you give to your team may not be landing.

The people who know their leadership style have a self-understanding most people don't, and a vocabulary to communicate it.

Val Porter Cook

Start With You

Apr 10, 2026

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4 min read

Start With You

There's no such thing as a “natural born leader.”

The people who look effortless under pressure aren't born that way. They've just done the work you haven't seen.

Val Porter Cook

•

Start With You

A leadership lesson from Lyndon B. Johnson.

Everything can look "good on paper," but sometimes that just isn't good enough.

Start With You

Is it the task, the team, or the toxicity?

These are three very different problems, and they require three very different responses.

Build The Team

How to lead with the "ebb and flow."

Motivation, flexibility, and one of the most common mistakes that leaders make.

Build The Team

If you don't give a Disruptor a project, they'll find one.

And you might not like what they pick...

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Build the Team

Apr 10, 2026

•

5 min read

Build The Team

Why the "gifts" you give to your team may not be landing.

The people who know their leadership style have a self-understanding most people don't, and a vocabulary to communicate it.

Val Porter Cook

•

Start With You

Apr 10, 2026

•

4 min read

There's no such thing as a “natural born leader.”

The people who look effortless under pressure aren't born that way. They've just done the work you haven't seen.

Val Porter Cook

Build The Team

Apr 10, 2026

•

5 min read

If you don't give a Disruptor a project, they'll find one.

And you might not like what they pick...

Val Porter Cook

Start With You

Apr 10, 2026

•

6 min read

Is it the task, the team, or the toxicity?

These are three very different problems, and they require three very different responses.

Val Porter Cook