If you are navigating post-divorce parenting, here is an important truth: You can love your kids deeply without losing leadership.

The teams and leaders who move forward fastest are not the ones with the most certainty. They are the ones willing to move with less of it.

Used well, the 9-box grid creates clarity around talent, development, and succession planning. Used poorly, it can reduce people to labels or overly subjective judgments.

Most of us don’t struggle because we lack skill, intelligence, or experience.We struggle because of the internal voices that quietly run the show under pressure. In Positive Intelligence (PQ), these voices are called saboteurs. Saboteurs are not flaws.They’re survival strategies you developed early in life to stay safe, successful, or accepted. They once helped you. But over time, they can limit how you lead, relate, and live.