Steve Klinsky built a $60 billion private equity empire straight out of “Barbarians at the Gate.” Now he wants to make college free — one exam at a time.
I’ll never forget the morning I froze in front of a client. I was a Vice President at Kearney, the global management consulting firm, presenting our proposal to a three-person client subcommittee. Mid-sentence, my mind went completely blank. Not…
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.”
– President John Fitzgerald Kenned…
March Madness is well underway, but for a lot of people, it’s just another day at the office. That is, until you walk into the break room or sign into Slack and realize the place is abuzz with bracket chatter and Final Four predictions.
You s…
“Companies need to let that go, as it’s going to hold back innovation,” Aneesh Raman argues.
There is a particular kind of leadership failure that occurs when a leader transitions into a new high stakes role. It’s tricky at first, because it doesn’t look like failure. No one is being fired. The leader feels productive, even indispensable. But…
A CEO’s English condolence video after a deadly crash ignited fury in francophone Canada—and shows why cultural fluency is now a core leadership skill.
Michael Rousseau said he could not express himself adequately in French despite “many lessons over several years.”
Hadrian CEO Chris Power said it’s time to tell your kids to ditch the four-year degree and enter the trades.
After self-made billionaire Reed Hastings found out his boss was washing his dirty mugs, he’s learned to stay humble and connect with staffers—by giving them coffee in fresh cups.
