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You Can’t Delegate Leadership Upward

November 15, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

Leadership is ownership; you can’t delegate it. When leaders tolerate upward delegation, they destroy decentralized command and train the organization to bypass managers and avoid responsibility.

Categories Business, Execution & Discipline, Leadership Tags accountability, business operations, decentralized command, ego, leadership, management failure, managing up, organizational culture, ownership, upward delegation

Against the Cult of Speed

November 13, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

Many companies worship speed, but urgency forces multitasking and weakens execution.

Categories Business, Execution & Discipline Tags business strategy, deep work, execution, leadership, organizational culture, productivity

Ego is an operating risk, not a leadership trait.

November 13, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

Ego doesn’t protect the business—it protects the leader.

Categories Business, Leadership Tags behavioral-patterns, business-operations, decision-making, ego, hiring, leadership, management, operational-failure, organizational-dynamics, systems-thinking

Write Like You Run

November 13, 2025November 11, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

Writing is training for the mind—an elemental act that demands the same discipline as running.

Categories Inter alia Tags discipline, fieldnotes, philosophy, practice, stoicism, training, writing

Battery

November 8, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

You’ve been a battery—powering systems that feed on your attention. Protect your charge. It’s all you really own.

Categories Inter alia Tags attention, focus, self-discipline, solitude, technology

Friction

September 12, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

Hard things aren’t about time or talent—they’re about friction.

Categories Execution & Discipline, Fatherhood Tags discipline, friction, parenting, practicalshooting, running, writing

Courage Starts Small

September 10, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

Small choices shape character. Teaching kids to speak up—even when it’s uncomfortable—plants the seeds of courage that last a lifetime.

Categories Fatherhood Tags courage, discilpine, integrity, parenting, ripple effect

The Strength of Silence

September 12, 2025September 9, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

Silence isn’t withdrawal—it’s oxygen. In solitude we sharpen clarity, become more present, and protect the strength that constant noise erodes

Categories Execution & Discipline, Inter alia Tags clarity, discipline, presence, reflection, silence, solitude

Friction is the Enemy

September 12, 2025July 21, 2025 by Jaime N. Calaf

DayLog 001: Friction kills most creative work. Not time. Not talent. Just resistance. Motion before spark.

Categories Execution & Discipline, Inter alia Tags creative-process, discipline, friction
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