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The One Capacity You’ve Ignored Far Too Long—Part 1

If you had to identify one human capacity that makes each of the following possible, what would it be?

Engineering a city
Executing a business strategy
Producing offspring
Running a marathon
Playing in a jazz quartet

The answer may not be obvious. These activities seem to have little in common.

Before revealing what connects them, consider a second list. What might underlie these familiar organizational problems?

Lack of trust
Miscommunication
Lack of clarity
Lack of accountability

At first glance, the two lists appear to ask DOWNLOAD PDF

By Tony Zampella|2026-08-31T19:18:06-04:00August 31st, 2026|Blog, Communication, Leadership|0 Comments

Being Late Is More About Being Than Time

The headline — “Gen Z workers think showing up 10 minutes late to work is as good as being on time” — first caught my attention two years ago.

Since then, many articles have explored and even normalized this sentiment. Predictably, these conversations often spiral into debates about work culture, generational values, capitalism, power, and respect.

Exploring commentary and Reddit threads, I found evidence of these discussions dating to 2019, well before the pandemic reshaped our relationship to work and time.

What I found were several surface interpretations of timeliness and lateness:

— Some argue that strict adherence to time DOWNLOAD PDF

By Tony Zampella|2026-06-08T12:20:27-04:00May 18th, 2026|Blog, Leadership|0 Comments

Why “Good Faith” Matters Now More Than Ever

In a previous essay on coaching, politics, and democracy, I explored what it means to treat democracy as a living conversation—and offered practices to sustain it. The foundational practice included a simple, but essential commitment: good faith.

Since then, sociopolitical tensions—both globally and at home—have only intensified. What once felt foundational now feels indispensable. In every effort, conversation, and even disagreement, good faith establishes the conditions under which we remain whole and understanding remains possible—even in the presence of opposition.

Ezra Klein captures this principle in a recent New York Times column:

Conversation is not a reward DOWNLOAD PDF

By Tony Zampella|2026-06-03T14:31:00-04:00April 20th, 2026|Blog, Communication, Leadership, Practice|0 Comments