If you have any sort of power for any reasonable length of time, you will be changed by it — awareness of the effects is crucial.
Nik Kinley is Director and Head of Talent Strategy for the global talent management consultancy YSC, and the co-author of Re-writing Your Leadership Code.
Startup success can often hinge on a key lesson derived from behavioral science … and Jerry Seinfeld’s “Night Guy vs. Morning Guy” routine.
Martin Gonzalez is the co-creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project and the co-author of The Bonfire Moment.
In some organizations “founder mode” can become synonymous with over-reliance. Here’s how to avoid the pitfalls of “apparent irreplaceability.”
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is the director of Digital Humanities and a professor of English at Michigan State University. She is the author of Generous Thinking and Leading Generously.
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the “silent evidence.”
Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.
What worked before won’t necessarily work this time — and the best leaders will adapt.
Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.
The father of relativity understood that “not everything that counts can be counted” — as do today’s most impactful leaders.
Times of crisis tend to produce “hard” leaders, but — driven by Generations Y and Z — a softer leadership style has taken root globally.
So many of the conditions for a sale or IPO are outside your control — which is why preparation is everything.
How Stacy Madison — founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBOLD Foods — discovered that reinvention is not a one-off deal but an ongoing process.
Step 1: Don’t solve the wrong problem.
Every organization has a power block of dutiful but unappreciated talent. Here’s an effective plan for engagement.