Leadership isn't revealed when life is fair. Folarin Balogun's response to adversity offers a powerful lesson in personal accountability and composure under pressure.

Development as a Marathon, Piece 5: Boston Marathon, April 2015 This could sound, for a paragraph or two, like another Stop and Smell the Roses leadership story. It isn’t, quite. Most lessons focus on enjoying the work. Mine is about something harder: how the discipline that drives us to start can also blind us to the significance of the start line itself. I almost missed the Boston Marathon while I was running it. That’s what this week is about. How I got to the start line L

Spend any time on a practice field and in a motor pool, and you’ll notice similarities in language. We rally around the mission, refuse to let our teammates down, preach next man up, and dig deep when it’s the fourth quarter. We leave it all on the field and trust the process. The vocabulary overlaps so naturally that it almost goes unnoticed. But the real connection isn’t linguistic—it’s foundational. The language is the echo. The roots run much deeper.