Ideas we're realizing together

Insights on life, learning, and growth from Mindel Solutions—connecting real challenges with thoughtful ideas and a practical, lived approach to emotionally intelligent leadership.

We're working to realize these ideas in both senses of the word: deepening understanding and bringing them into practice. In our events and programs, they move from insight into experience—explored, tested, and brought to life through real conversations.

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Daily practice beats knowing all about tennis six love.

Leadership is what you do under pressure

I started out thinking leadership was about knowing what to do. Read the books. Understand the models. Figure it out. But when pressure hit, I almost never did what I thought I had learned to do.

Marcellus MindelMarch 17, 2026
Aeneas crushed by a rock

Do you protect results or people?

Some team meetings can be quite dramatic. The arena is packed. The lights are blinding. The crowd is roaring. When the stakes are high, do you protect people or results?

Marcellus MindelMarch 3, 2026
Embracing questions asked from a different frame of reference

Free parking and other measures of human flourishing

“How many sheep does your skyscraper hold?” Sounds ridiculous — until you understand what human flourishing means to the person asking. Dismiss the question, and miss the need underneath it. How will this work for me? Will my needs be met? Can I belong here?

Marcellus MindelFebruary 24, 2026
Relationship power skills get you through the door five stories up

New hires enter at the middle

Power skills are the passport for entry at the middle. How do they impact your organization? When and how are they being learned today? What are we missing?

Marcellus MindelFebruary 18, 2026
Digging holes and then filling them in...

Why conscious leadership takes time — and why it's worth it

Some days your career can feel like a series of holes dug out and filled in.

Marcellus MindelFebruary 13, 2026
A fork in the road is a choice between victory and fulfillment.

Victory or Fulfillment?

In the opener to The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek positions Victory and Fulfillment as alternatives. Can you have both? Make your numbers AND become someone worth being?

Marcellus MindelDecember 16, 2025
Playful Brainstorming Practices

Science as Improv?

When the stakes are high, the problems complex, and the goals audacious, the playful improvisational power of YES AND… enables a group to heap up a pile of ideas that keep getting more nuanced and inspired as things roll.

Marcellus MindelMay 13, 2025