Every Thanksgiving, gratitude gets filed under "personal" while the business stays transactional. That's a missed opportunity. 2020 was brutal, but brutal years are where leaders learn the things good years hide: which customers are indispensable, where communication breaks down, what really drives demand. Stoltz and Weihenmayer call it the adversity advantage. The gratitude practice worth keeping is the one that names (out loud) what adversity taught you this year.

Do opportunities exist out in the world waiting to be discovered, or do entrepreneurs conjure them into being through sheer force of will? The August issue of Academy of Management Perspectives opens with Eminem lyrics and then spends five articles wrestling with this unexpectedly practical question. The answer matters more than it sounds. How your organization talks about opportunity shapes who gets rewarded, which ideas get traction, and whether your firm keeps creating the