Embracing transparency will pay dividends. Let’s say that you were the head of marketing for a well-known branded company when COVID hit. Or the chief communications officer during the social upheaval surrounding the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement. You might just...
Mike Tyson: “Everybody’s got a plan until they get hit.” Well, the events of the past few months have swung at us pretty hard. Some of us got knocked flat, some are standing but reeling from the blow and some managed to slip the punch altogether and pivot out of...
Remember when you first learned to drive a car—intently focusing on the control panels, the gas and brake pedals, perhaps a clutch and gearshift, all the while looking at the hood of the car to see where you were headed? There were so many things to pay attention...
Good followership fosters good leadership Maybe the first game we ever played as kids was “Follow the Leader”—and we’ve been doing it ever since. But what we overlook is that without followers, who do leaders lead? Indeed, if you flip the coin of leadership, what...
Bridging the gap between leaders and those they seek to lead requires a kind of alchemy. The separation between ineffective or underperforming leaders and those they seek to lead is often expansive. Trust and communication erode. If the gap persists, what are the...
As business becomes increasingly global, leaders must make pivots to earn credibility from their international colleagues and employees. Both burgeoning and established businesses can no longer stay put. They must set down roots not just a continent’s breadth...
