For nearly 30 years, I’ve been exploring the source of impact in working with others, seeking answers to questions like:

What are the differences that make a real and lasting difference?
What works most of the time as opposed to occasionally?
How do you follow Hippocrates dictum to “first, do no harm”?

The question I’ve probably spent the most time exploring is this:

How do we maximize impact while minimizing the time and effort it takes to consistently achieve it?

A few years back, I was being interviewed for an article on leadership when the interviewer asked me a question I’d never been asked before: What’s the most important question we can ask ourselves as leaders?

My answer surprised me, as the question that came to mind was “Am I here?”

Cancer is funny.

Especially Merriam-Webster’s definition numbers 2 and 1a
(placed in that order here for literary effect).

Funny adjective
fun·ny | \ˈfə-nē

2: differing from the ordinary in a suspicious, perplexing, quaint, or eccentric way: PECULIAR
My car has been making a funny noise…