Founder CEOs have captured the imagination of the business world and often have a somewhat idealized or even romanticized image. Most founders have dreams of becoming the next Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates. Venture and private equity investors …
Six months ago, it would have seemed wild that so many of us would now be working from home with no clear end in sight, joining work calls from our home offices and kitchen tables.
The remote work shift has crystallized into a long-term reality, with m…
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In February, I attended a dinner with CEOs from Slack, Box, Zoom, and PagerDuty. We discussed business plans, roadblocks, and aspirations for 2020. COVID-19 did not come up once. But by early March, all of the shop we talked just weeks earlier became o…
Yes, I wanted to hear the CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google respond to a torrent of tough questions from Congress about competition and fairness when they testified last week before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommitte…
The idea of emotional intelligence, or EI, has been around for some time now. But even though EI is more widely accepted—especially in business—misconceptions about how to develop it are common. Much of what has been written makes it appe…
Since the police killing of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests, companies are looking for ways to combat racial bias and discrimination at work. The stats are jarring. In one 2009 study, hiring managers were 74% more likely to hire candidates…
Since the police killing of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests, companies are looking for ways to combat racial bias and discrimination at work. The stats are jarring. In one 2009 study, hiring managers were 74% more likely to hire candidates…
I met Representative John Lewis in 1993 while I was interning in Washington, D.C. As a sharecropper’s son, Lewis would preach to his father’s chickens as a young boy. He gave them names and even baptized them because he wanted to be a min…
“When I am stuck for one moment, I leave it and do something else.” – Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998)
Over the span of thirty years, Niklas Luhmann published more than 70 books and nearly 400 academic articles—a measure of produc…
