5 leadership lessons from Alex Honnold’s free climb of Taipei 101

SmartBrief | 10.02.2026 00:07
My day job is leadership development and executive coaching, but in my free time, I’m an avid rock climber. I always climb with ropes and other safety gear, unlike legendary pro climber Alex Honnold, who recently became the first person to free-climb Taipei 101, a 1,667-foot tower. Documented in real time on the Netflix special Skyscraper Live, millions of people witnessed this unfathomable feat.