<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Omar L. Harris]]></title><description><![CDATA[The home of Author, Leader, and Coach - Omar L. Harris, a place of inspiration, information, and resources for immediate application!]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:31:40 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Grow with WHOM is FREE until 9/13/26]]></title><description><![CDATA[https://www.amazon.com/Grow-W-H-M-Leadership-Fundamentals-ebook/dp/B0GX2YK34Q]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/grow-with-whom-is-free-until-9-13-26</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aca6328b89f0f638e400121</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:10:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_36b308830fb94bfb8722ff7836aabb4b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership Lessons from The Pursuit of Happyness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Please note: this article contains spoilers. Would you have given Chris Gardner a chance? Answer it before you read any further, because the reflexive answer is worth nothing. Everybody says yes to the man they have already watched succeed for two hours. So take the version of him who actually arrives at your door. No degree. No finance background. A failing one-man business selling medical scanners that hospitals keep calling a luxury. Homeless, though that will not appear on any form you...]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/leadership-lessons-from-the-pursuit-of-happyness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab94721374a74a681c46747</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:47:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_d123c29e4eef44399a386999b76b390e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cohesion Isn't a Waiting Game. It's a Contract.]]></title><description><![CDATA[LET'S GROW  ·  ISSUE 04  ·  BY OMAR L. HARRIS In 2019 I bet that the stages of team formation could be hacked. Seven years — and a system taken from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia — later, I'm more convinced than ever. Now I'm looking for ten leaders to build with. § 01 · The bet I made in 2019 If you've been following my journey, you know I'm fairly obsessed with high-performance teaming. That obsession has a starting point. In 2019 I wrote Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams...]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/cohesion-isn-t-a-waiting-game-it-s-a-contract</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab166d42fcee6cfa1336fbb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:21:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_1f2e6c5a35e54cc7b1531e1facda506d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_756,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Biggest Winners Cheated. Now What?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gates, Jobs, Musk, Zuckerberg. If low character pays this well, why should anyone do things the right way? The cynics are not wrong about the facts. They are wrong about what the facts mean.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/the-biggest-winners-cheated-now-what</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aaddca446044d755f6d7403</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_f9f693057b1d49cfb7b215273f260149~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership Unmasked: Why Weakness Won't Lead to Winning]]></title><description><![CDATA[The winners are not the people who fixed their weaknesses. They are the people who got best at hiding them. A brief history of the wrong obsession, and the character alternative it took two centuries to name.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/leadership-unmasked-why-weakness-won-t-lead-to-winning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aaddca41fb5e4b57efdb4e8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_c1a120fcadf64015b23ffe2bbab18dbf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foundational Teaming Explained]]></title><description><![CDATA[The eight-module system Bruce Tuckman pointed toward, and why every team needs to install it before anything else can compound.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/foundational-teaming-explained</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aadef7e1fb5e4b57efdde95</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_7c16dc7003dc4ee5b8ea2b4bd5e17c27~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership Lessons from Draft Day: Everyone Scouts Talent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost nobody scouts character. Ten lessons from the longest day of Sonny Weaver's life, and why the data that mattered was sitting in the file, unread.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/leadership-lessons-from-draft-day-everyone-scouts-talent</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aadeeec1fb5e4b57efddd29</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_75d6ed36d5dc4e9382edcbd58e373756~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_644,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two-Part Diagnostic That Rewrites the Culture Consulting Engagement]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the ORI and W.H.O.M. for Teams work together, and why licensing them into your practice changes what you can actually sell.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/the-two-part-diagnostic-that-rewrites-the-culture-consulting-engagement</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aadef7f1fb5e4b57efdde97</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_b2ce8e671fa6405586d70b5482fbc5c8~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership Lessons from Project Hail Mary]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reluctant astronaut with no memory, no team, and no playbook. Eight lessons on leading through the impossible, from ambiguity to the truest definition of bravery.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/leadership-lessons-from-project-hail-mary</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aadf62b1fb5e4b57efded77</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_254d01dc71e9481f9221091820a1c95a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why We Built the ORI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seven dimensions of resilience, and why an engagement score cannot measure any of them. Engagement measures the good day. The ORI measures what your team does when the day goes wrong.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/why-we-built-the-ori</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aadef7e1fb5e4b57efdde92</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_ba93f7aa50754bb887c6a386b8d6cf72~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Character Signature Era]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leadership development has spent decades answering what to do. The question underneath it almost never gets asked: who am I being while I do it?]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/welcome-to-the-character-signature-era</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aadef7f73e456c0a3aed97c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_253b7545d80840489fce454ba79c6c34~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_719,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership Lessons from The Matrix: Scarcity Built the Cage]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most misread film of my lifetime is not about illusion. It is about allocation, and about what happens when someone decides in advance how much reality you can be trusted with.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/leadership-lessons-from-the-matrix-scarcity-built-the-cage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aadeeeb73e456c0a3aed837</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_7cba4d2764c4402c99653c0eb4e8682a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Promise Comes Due: An Address for the 250th]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Declaration was not a mission accomplished. It was a mission statement. An honest accounting of the principles, priorities, processes, and practices of 250 years.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/the-promise-comes-due-an-address-for-the-250th</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aade6ff1fb5e4b57efdcae8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_e1e8fd0b5c5a4ba4a6e54f3fec4267ab~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Knicks Are the Embodiment of W.H.O.M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fifty-three years of waiting. Eight players. One coach. The Knicks did not out-talent the league. They out-charactered it.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/the-new-york-knicks-are-the-embodiment-of-w-h-o-m</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aade5c346044d755f6d865b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_1d031d59cb6d49e08e97494af43d87da~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_686,h_386,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Abundance Exchange Came Back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three milestones in a single week, one principle underneath them, and the operating system almost no one is being shown. High character begets high character.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/the-abundance-exchange-came-back</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aade5c473e456c0a3aec305</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_750c580ff19941b0b69003daa77e6005~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everest Doesn't Care — and Neither Do Your Lofty Missions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mountain strips you in stages: first your vanity, then your plan, then your optimism. What's left is character, and it is the only thing that gets you to the summit and home again.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/everest-doesn-t-care-and-neither-do-your-lofty-missions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aade8331fb5e4b57efdcd56</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_f21375baff7d460a8003800f5fda1fe9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership Lessons from Sicario: When Authority Has No Limits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kate Macer questions, documents, and escalates through every proper channel. She loses anyway. Ten lessons on what unlimited authority actually needs from people of character.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/leadership-lessons-from-sicario-when-authority-has-no-limits</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aadee3f46044d755f6d9a5d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_5262f26d179d4b05a1b923d1a3f35588~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Three Renewable Resources of Leadership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Focus, time, and capacity renew every single day. The only question is whether your leadership replenishes them or strip-mines them.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/the-three-renewable-resources-of-leadership</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aaddeaf73e456c0a3aeb495</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_5c4c1fc1d5f14f169a337539acefb2e1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Plans Are Destined to Fail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most strategic plans are not failures of execution. They are failures of conception. Three construction defects that show up in nearly every plan, and how to build differently.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/your-plans-are-destined-to-fail</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aaddeb273e456c0a3aeb49d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_fbd8b5e2333f49a3b4722767f62549e2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership Lessons from Spider-Man: Brand New Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[A burnout film with web-shooters. Grit is the multiplier, not the resource, and Peter Parker spends four years multiplying a shrinking sum.]]></description><link>https://www.omarlharrisblog.com/post/leadership-lessons-from-spider-man-brand-new-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aade30646044d755f6d80b2</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bbbc2_4bba0c334216411d963ace8849cc734d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Omar L. Harris</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>