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Rosalind Price has been a grief and transitions coach since losing her mother at 16, her father at 23, and her former husband in 2022. Her napkin reframes what resilience means for people everyone else depends on. Inside: cumulative grief, the death of an expectation, and what to say to someone on your team who is grieving.

A manager is struggling, you can see the answer, and you step in. The problem gets solved and the result looks good. What nobody measures is what the person learned about their own abilities. Episode 410 of Paper Napkin Wisdom, Edge of the Napkin #62.

Mike Batista is an engineer by training who builds healthcare companies for a living. After seven years of assembling the component parts, he says the one part you cannot assemble is the one that predicts success. His napkin reads: you can't engineer PASSION.

Thirty-five years ago I stood outside an office at six in the morning in Ottawa and waited hours for five minutes with Bruce Firestone. He said yes, and that yes still matters. This is about what growth takes away from an owner, and what a conversation gives back that a dashboard can't.

Mridu Parikh built a business while avoiding the one activity that would decide whether it survived. Her husband named it in four words on a Sunday morning. Here is what she changed, why the Power Hour works, and what a leader's attention teaches a whole team.

At a scaling conference, entrepreneurs at $2M, $4M and $10M described the same wall in different words. Some of those walls are real. Some get built one approval at a time. Episode 406 of Paper Napkin Wisdom looks at the belief loop underneath a plateau, and one decision to hand over this week.