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
Leaders spend 60-70% of their time in meetings. And 60-70% of people will tell you those meetings are ineffective. We keep running this madness anyway. More meetings, more speed, more effort. I’ve believed for years
Ask ten leaders to define an employee engagement program and you tend to get ten versions of the same answer. An annual survey. A recognition platform, organizational health assessment. A few perks, an annual pulse check, maybe
Most leaders I know start the morning with a to-do list. Very few start with a to-be list. That distinction, small as it sounds, may be the clearest line I have seen between leaders who
Three years ago I walked away from a 17 year career at McKinsey. The reason was simple. Since the days of the Model T we have become extraordinary at optimizing physical assets. Machines, plants, supply
~80 to 90% of the time, we’re running on our sympathetic nervous system. That’s what our research found when I was at McKinsey. Fight or flight, all day long. Foot on the gas, tank near
I asked a partner at a consulting firm what he was doing with all the time AI had given him back. He told me about the process of evaluating employees on his team, the review
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