BIG IDEA: Some leaders are showing their true colors in the debate over remote work. Organizations are trying a number of strategies to get their people back into the office. There’s the Goofus and Gallant approach: “Uberly engaged” employees want to return to the office, WeWork’s CEO claimed. “Those who are least engaged are very comfortable working […]
Gut Check for Leaders: Do you and your team know that cyber security is an important and essential part of their role? Cyber threats no longer belong to just the IT department. Cyber security is an important business issue for leaders across functions, departments, and levels. Do you and your team understand where your role
Gut Check for Leaders: Are you building the community of leaders you need to succeed? BIG IDEA: After 18 months of the global pandemic, leaders are lonelier and more isolated than ever. A leadership role has always been a lonely place to be. Unfortunately, the forced isolation of the past year eighteen months has only
Are You Leading a Truly Accountable Team? BIG IDEA: Many teams have stepped up in extraordinary ways. Take time to evaluate how yours is doing and what support they need from you. I’m a big believer in a mid-year gut check—a time to pause and reflect on your own leadership accountability for the first half of
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BIG IDEA: As a leader, you must make time to step back and think about the big picture context in which you operate. Today, thanks to the once-in-a-generation circumstances of the pandemic, leaders find themselves in a paradoxical bind. In some ways, we’re all obsessed by our external context. We can’t help but be focused
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BIG IDEA: We all need resolve to face the overwhelming realities of work right now. Have you checked in with your team lately? How are they doing? If I had to guess, based on what I’m hearing from clients, I’d say your team members are probably struggling right now. So many of our organizations have been through
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BIG IDEA: The pandemic has created an inflection point for leaders. “Leaders are at a fork in the road,” Tiffani Bova, the customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce.com and the author of the book Growth IQ, told us on our Lead the Future Podcast. As the pandemic winds to a close, Bova said, “You’re either
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BIG IDEA: You need both resilience and resolve to get through tough times. Overwhelmed. Disengaged. Underprepared. These three words are coming up again and again in my conversations with leaders everywhere. It goes without saying that the past year has been tough. Organizations have had to contend with a myriad of complex challenges. Many are
BIG IDEA: Many of us are languishing right now. According to The New York Times, languishing is the dominant emotion of 2021. Languishing is the middle ground between depression and thriving. It’s a sort of blah, aimless, stuck feeling that can be the end result of the kind of prolonged stress we’ve all been feeling
BIG IDEA: Pressuring people to ‘think positive’ can backfire. This month, we’ve been focusing on the importance of optimism in leadership. I shared how it is one of the key characteristics of accountable leaders. You can’t lead people towards a better future if you don’t believe that a better future is possible. But even optimism