When employees believe in their leaders’ fairness and integrity, their engagement and output soar
Four “AI leadership anchors” to help you maintain control while clarifying and deepening your own thinking.
In the defining years of American business, founding CEOs were virtually synonymous with the companies they led. Walt Disney was Disney incarnate; Dale Carnegie came to represent the steel industry itself. These figures were not just company leaders; …
The news that Microsoft is making 9,000 workers redundant this year, with a focus on jettisoning managers, has sent ripples through the business world. Andy Jassey, Amazon’s CEO, explicitly said this summer that AI advances will lead to job cuts. So i…
Successful dual-leadership structures require continuous calibration.
In early 2023, Shopify made a bold and deliberate decision that rippled through its entire organization. Without warning anyone or conducting a phased rollout, they removed over 12,000 recurring meetings from employee calendars. They put a c…
For leaders today, the pressure to do more with less feels relentless. Leaner teams, flatter organizations, and the rise of productivity tools such as Slack, Notion.ai, and Monday.com promise efficiency but often deliver the opposite: more reporting, …
This clear, organized process can help teams break free of a variety of human tendencies that get in the way of innovation.
Eight questions to help leaders understand what’s driving unhappiness on their teams.
AI is upending what we do and how we do it. Forward-looking leaders are forging partnerships to help employees develop new skills—and clearer career pathways—at scale.
