I was just about to leave Milan, and I couldn’t get my mind off one particular question. I had just attended and spoke at the Future.Series (FU.SE) conference, an event sponsored by the Adecco Group, Microsoft and the Boston Consulting Group that brought together a broad array of business, government and policy leaders to help […]
“Good players can’t overcome bad coaching.” It’s one of my favorite adages about leadership which I heard once again this week from Bill Belichick, the legendary Head Coach of the once again Super Bowl Champions the New England Patriots. After Sunday’s big win, Belichick was interviewed by ESPN. A panel of football experts followed up
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Like most families I know, ours has its own group chat. We stay connected through a stream of daily texts. Most of it is the typical stuff like reminders of appointments, things to get done, sharing interesting stories from the world of sports, entertainment and so on. This week, the Molinaro group chat was full
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I’m a sucker for “top” lists. Top 100 movies of all time. Top Premier League strikers. Top vacation destinations. You name the list, and I’m likely to click and read who or what got the top ranking. Given my work with leaders, I’m always most interested in lists that try to capture the world’s best
The “future of work” has become a bona fide global obsession. Every week, I get a flood of surveys, studies, commentaries and editorials all talking about the future of work and jobs, many with dire and even apocalyptic headlines. I’m sure you do as well. As I read all the reports, studies and predictions, I
Boy, did Peter Drucker know what he was talking about. An Austrian-born consultant and educator, Drucker is considered the father of modern management philosophy and education. Although he died in 2005, his writings on the dynamics of business corporations and leaders still resonate for me and for many leadership consultants around the world. Drucker was
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“Things were even worse than I expected.” The admission came from a recent conversation I had with a new CEO at a financial services organization who was hired to transform her organization. Going in, she knew she took over a company that needed to change. She was well aware of the organizational and cultural challenges she
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My team and I have worked with a lot of organizations over the years. They often call us in when they are at critical inflection points. This means the company must figure out how to get change right. During all these experiences, one of the key variables to success is whether the HR function is
Thought leadership is something that has always been an important part of my professional life. I’ve invested a lot of time creating my own thought leadership through writing, speaking and research. I’ve also created and implemented thought leadership strategies in the professional services firms in which I’ve worked. I’m certainly not alone; this is a
I laughed a little, and shuddered a lot, as I watched a powerful new television ad campaign created by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA). Entitled “Record Label,” the ad recreates a fictional meeting in the office of the president of a record label back in the 1990s. He is lamenting the fact that