Develop yourself
Be a Builder.
Don’t simply float through life. Lead your life by first learning to lead yourself.
Understand where you are, decide where you want to go, and build what comes next.
A More Intentional Life
Are You Authoring Your Life
or Reacting to It?
Some people move through life with a clear sense of who they are and what matters. Others find themselves following beliefs, expectations and roles formed much earlier. The difference may begin with taking the time to examine what your life is built around, and whether it still fits who you are becoming.
Purpose and Change
Purpose Isn’t Something You
Discover Once.
Purpose gives shape to your decisions, relationships, work and use of time. But roles change. Experience changes you. The world around you changes too.
Lane uses reconstruction capacity to describe the ability to revisit the beliefs and priorities shaping your life, decide what still fits and rebuild what no longer does.
You’ve changed. Has your definition of purpose changed with you?
Start With Your Question
Three Ways to Begin.
You do not need to start with the theory or read everything in order. Begin with the question that feels most relevant to you.
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What am I building my life around now?
Self-Leadership Through Personal Purpose
A practical guide to examining your purpose, the beliefs supporting it and Lane’s Four Inner Ps: Purpose, Persuasions, Personality and Proficiencies.
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Can success pull me out of alignment?
Interpretive Drift
Explore how success can reinforce familiar assumptions even after circumstances begin to change, causing leaders and organizations to drift out of alignment with reality.
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What happens when what worked no longer works?
The Success Trap
Explore why the patterns that created success at one stage of life can become constraints when circumstances change and a new approach is required.
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Go Deeper Through Story
Two Books. Two Ways
Into the Same Questions.
Lane’s books explore many of the same ideas through story and lived experience, offering a deeper path into purpose, perception and our ability to adapt as life changes.
What Is This Thing Called Life?
What is life, what drives it, and what does that mean for how we live? Drawing on science, philosophy, faith, and personal experience, Lane Sloan offers a provocative new perspective on life’s underlying nature—and invites readers to reconsider what they believe, how they find meaning, and what it takes to become the author of their own lives.
The Big Puzzle
Told as a detective’s investigation, The Big Puzzle explores how the thinking that creates success can also make change harder to see. Moving across individuals, organizations, and societies, Lane Sloan invites readers to follow the evidence, question familiar assumptions, and consider when a different way of thinking may be needed.
Leadership insights
Ideas Worth Exploring.
Lane’s articles offer individual perspectives on leadership, management and the questions that arise when we look more closely at how people and organizations work. Some begin with a practical business challenge. Others explore assumptions, perception, adaptation or the changing world around us. Each is an opportunity to consider a familiar subject from a different perspective and perhaps see something new.
The Underlying Research
Want to Go Deeper?
The articles and books on this page connect to Lane’s broader research framework, ISLE: Integrating Structure and Life Energy. It explores how individuals, organizations and societies develop, adapt and sometimes become constrained by the beliefs and structures that once helped them succeed.
You do not need to understand the theory to use the practical ideas. But if you want to explore the research behind them, you can go deeper.