The ClearVision Blog

Be Flawless at What You Can Control

Jet Blue Founder, David Neeleman, said this on Guy Raz’s How I Built This podcast. I’ve been thinking about it ever since. First, if you’re not listening to Guy Raz’s How I Built This podcast, you should be. Every episode features a long-format interview with the founder of a successful business. Guy does a great…

Read more

He Makes the Trains Run on Time

Decades ago, my boss told me this as a compliment. When I did research for this post, I found out the phrase is also pregnant with political meaning. As part of Mussolini’s rise to power, he took control of Italy’s large-scale public works projects which included rebuilding the railroads after WW1. As Prime Minister, he…

Read more

Rearranging the Deck Chairs on The Titanic

There’s not consensus on who coined the phrase, but I’ve thought about this bit of genius hundreds of times over the course of my work and personal life. Sometimes problems are hard to solve because the solutions are hard to execute. The solution might require a very difficult conversation – a conversation that will elicit…

Read more