The average manager now carries 51% more responsibilities than they can effectively manage, according to a Gartner survey of more than 6,000 managers and employees. Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index found the typical worker is
Approximately 11 million US workers are in declining occupations and may need to move into new jobs, according to recent data from McKinsey. Yet only one in seven has a direct pathway into growing work, with about
You can hire A-players. You can coach them, assess them, develop them and pay them well. You can still end up with a team that underperforms, where ten brilliant people somehow add up to less
What if the very thing that made you successful is also the thing holding your team back? Your drive, your empathy, your standards, your humility. We treat our strengths as assets, and the people who
A two-word message arrives from your boss: “Can we talk?” No context. No agenda. Within seconds your mind has written a story. Maybe you are in trouble. Maybe you are about to be rewarded. Maybe
I spent much of my career at McKinsey helping companies run their physical assets at 80-85% efficiency. Somewhere along the way I realized we were running the humans at less than 30%. The gap was
I have sat in hundreds of executive meetings over 25 years, and I would estimate that ~80-90% of the groups that call themselves a leadership team are not one. They are a team of leaders
Almost four years ago I spent time at the Next Practice Institute, learning how to work with complexity from Carolyn Coughlin. That week has stayed with me ever since. It did not hand me a
Gallup’s newest State of the Global Workplace report landed with a number that should stop every executive mid-scroll: just 20% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, the lowest reading since 2020. The cost of
Fear works. That’s the uncomfortable truth almost nobody in leadership development wants to say out loud. Fear hits deadlines. Shame gets the report turned in. Command-and-control produces results, but only in the short run. That
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