Leadership Lessons

41. Helping Working Parents Face Their Leadership Challenge 4/1/2020

    Working parents can develop their leadership capacity by looking for and pursuing “four-way wins” — improving performance at work, home, in the community, and for themselves (mind, body, and spirit).

42. Do You Make Your Own Luck? 2/28/2020

    “The only thing “lucky” was my having the opportunity to learn from someone who continues to make their own luck.”

43. Why Vulnerability Is A Leadership Superpower 1/31/2020

    One of a leader’s most important traits is authenticity. But to truly be authentic requires a willingness to be vulnerable. Here’s how you can become your ideal version of a leader.

44. To Succeed In An AI World, Focus On Your Human Qualities 12/30/2019

    To succeed in an AI world you need to keep technology in its place – as servant not master – and emphasize your distinctively human qualities, such as intuitive judgment, creativity, and personal relationships.

45. If You Aren’t the Expert, Don’t Act Like You Are 11/27/2019

    Today we manage knowledge workers — and so the great leader will ask not tell. Knowledge workers are people who know more about what they are doing than their bosses do.

46. How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work 11/1/2019

    When both members of a dual-career couple are in senior leadership roles, the challenges are intense. How couples face those challenges has consequences for their teams and organizations as well as for themselves and families.

47. Corporate Leaders Stifle Employees 10/1/2019

    Most organizations and leaders say they want to empower people to contribute at their fullest capacity. But most leaders are never taught how to do that. We fall into the same traps…

48. 3 Ways Leaders Can Help Employees Prepare For The Future 8/30/2019

    Constant innovations in machine learning and robotics have reshaped work. A key lesson for leaders is to be aware of these changes and have clarity about the role they play in preparing employees for the future.

49. A Network Cyberattack I’ll Never Forget 8/1/2019

    Not long ago, one of our global clients fell victim to a cyberattack. Forty-five thousand employees, worldwide, were suddenly disconnected from their email, calendars, spreadsheets — even their IP calling system went dark.

50. Innovation Capital: How Do Leaders Win Support For Their Ideas? 7/1/2019

    Many potential innovations die not because the idea is bad, but because innovators can’t win support to turn their ideas into reality. We call it the innovator’s paradox: the more groundbreaking your idea, the greater the risk, and the harder it is to win support.