External shocks don’t create business fragility; they reveal it. Feeling uncertain? Savvy leaders don’t wait for chaos to force change. They create organizations where pivoting is muscle memory—not a panic response. External Shocks  Businesses that struggle are rarely victims of bad luck. More often, they’re casualties of leaders who mistook

Even giants like Boeing must continually communicate, assess and realign to ensure top priorities are achieved and core values are lived. Be Clear As leaders, we’re often faced with pivotal decisions that define our path forward. Whether it’s a question of safety or something else, the best moves are similar.

Although change is always in front of us, we think about change more at the start of each year. We can’t know the future. We certainly can’t control what the future holds. Or can we? We can control one change: our beliefs about ourselves. This internal change could be the

For some, the holidays can be stressful. Often it is the thoughts we have as we prepare for the holiday, or any time away from our day-to-day life, that create stressful feelings. Using the same three steps you now use to pause for clarity, you can pause while you prep.

This is not a warning about the risks of AI. This is about you, and how AI might help you lead better. I start with a story an AI striking up an unexpected conversation with me. I reached out to an AI for research. Picture this: An AI engaging you

Develop your leaders and you’ll become stronger and faster than your competition. You’ll also uncover at least two benefits that could help improve performance ten times over. Setting the stage to gain a leadership development edge Enterprise Holdings, promoted 20,000 people within this 100,000 person organization in 2022. Enterprise starts

There’s a need for significant change today: organizations are not keeping pace with what their desired workforce needs or wants. Can change management help? Yes, when combined with effective leadership. When significant change is needed Significant change is often needed somewhere in your organization. What is keeping you from being

How do you change how you listen to someone when you’ve judged them? How do you turn a negative perception into a more positive one? You get what you expect. A listening challenge One of your employees dropped the ball. It’s happened before. They are explaining what happened, and you

A challenge for business leaders today is ensuring that the right talent is in place for the future. Often the search is for someone to manage, and lead, a team. Does it make sense to fill that role with someone who is an expert in the primary work of that

We want to trust our leaders. We need to trust them if we are to align with the direction they have set for the organization. When trust breaks, alignment is lost. Both are difficult to re-gain. A furniture company CEO was recently the unfortunate star of a viral video displaying