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Category: Find Your Cool

  • Stop Chasing Approval: Embrace Your Values

    Post #25 — Find Your Cool Seriesby Tom Reynolds In my career, I saw what happens when people chase validation —from bosses, markets, or social media.They lose their center, They stop leading…


  • Redefine the Win: Study What Works and Let It Compound

    Find Your Cool Series by Tom Reynolds I spent years studying what makes companies win.What markets they played in.How they competed.Where they had an edge. That was my job — to…


  • Blog Post #14 — Find Your Cool Series

    Title: How to Run Your Own Race in a World Obsessed with Comparisonby: Tom Reynolds There’s a moment I’ll never forget. I was in a high-stakes leadership meeting, representing a billion-dollar…


  • Blog Post #12 — Find Your Cool Series

    Title: Building Micro-Wins: Your Secret WeaponBy Tom Reynolds One of the biggest myths in transformation is that big change requires big moves. But in both innovation and in life, we’ve learned…


  • Blog Post #11 — Find Your Cool Series

    Title: “Are you Busy, but not having a big impact”? — How to Focus on What MattersBy Tom Reynolds When we ran innovation labs or led large-scale turnarounds, one pattern showed…


  • Blog Post #10 — Find Your Cool Series

    Title: Why Self-Leadership Is the Most Critical Skill You’ll Ever Buildby Tom Reynolds In over four decades of driving innovation across healthcare, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and global operations, we noticed something…


  • Blog Post #9 — Find Your Cool Series

    Title: Resetting Your Internal Narrative for Growthby Tom Reynolds Every powerful innovation we ever led started with the same question: “What story are people telling themselves — and is it still…


  • Blog Post #8 — Find Your Cool Series

    Title: Mindset vs. Motivation: Why Mindset Wins Motivation is emotional.Mindset is structural. That’s a distinction we learned in the trenches — leading global transformations, managing high-stakes supply chain s, and coaching…


  • Blog Post #7 — Find Your Cool Series

    Title: The Art of Owning Your Story Stories are the soul of transformation. In every major innovation project — from reimagining cancer care to building billion-dollar strategies — we began with…


  • Blog Post #6 — Find Your Cool Series

    Title: How to Define Your Own Version of Success One of the first questions we asked in every innovation planning session was simple: “What does winning look like — and for…


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