When I first started publishing my thoughts, about two years ago, I did it with the same commitment I bring to everything: giving all of myself, while submitting to the harshest judge I know — myself.
Recently, my wife and daughters suggested I should slow down: perhaps post once or twice a week, so as not to “burn through” ideas too quickly and not to tire out readers. They told me that, after all, the truly interested would always be few, and that in time I would end up addressing an ever smaller audience.
But I chose instead to keep writing every day. Because those few genuinely interested deserve someone to write for them; it would not be right to write only for those who skim the surface, without wanting to dig deeper.
Leadership too — in business as in life — works the same way: you do not lead by trying to please everyone, but by choosing to be a voice for those who truly want to listen, and with them building a path forward. It is a matter of responsibility, but also of courage. Numbers may create noise, but only attentive people create value.
And you few (you know who you are!) who have offered me reflections and replies on which to build my own thoughts — you are the reason why, post after post, I have kept going. Not to chase the crowd, but to respect those who remain.
As a Sicilian proverb says: Cu’ cerca tutti, perdi cu’ trova — he who tries to please everyone loses the one who truly found him.