#94 Why Leaders Stall Before They Ever Start

Leader Fuel with Dr Linda Travelute · Aug 13, 2026 · 26m

In July of 2005, a man in Montreal picked up a red paperclip and decided he wanted a house. Fourteen trades later, he had one. Everybody talks about the house. Almost nobody notices the trade that actually made it possible, and that is the trade you have been avoiding for years without knowing it.

In this episode of the Leader Fuel Podcast, Dr. Linda names the pattern she sees in nearly every stalled leader she coaches: not a shortage of ambition, not a shortage of planning, but a refusal to trade the small unimpressive asset already sitting on the desk.

She merges the story with John…