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Why Social Courage Comes Before Confidence For six years, Sydney-based journalist and marketing agency founder Nick Bendel invited complete strangers to lunch, one at a time, driven by curiosity. The experiment was not a client-building exercise or a formal study. He wanted to test whether the disco...
Why a McKinsey Partner Lost His Leadership Role Chris Bradley, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, was removed from his leadership role at the McKinsey Global Institute after an internal review of his LinkedIn comments about the “glass cliff.” The Institute is McKinsey’s business and economic re...
How self-criticism turns pressure into procrastination As leaders take on greater scope, absorb more complexity and manage change, the workload can grow without a matching increase in time, authority or staffing. For high performers whose self-worth is closely tied to results, cognitive overload may...
Leadership Starts With Service and a Purpose Beyond Self When asked what distinguishes people who deserve trust from those who merely hold authority, Martha MacCallum offered an answer that may seem unexpected: “Love.” For her, meaningful leadership begins with genuine concern for other people and a...
Why Values Alone Aren't Enough Values exercises feel like they’re everywhere right now. And while it’s worthwhile to be able to clearly articulate values, you are not exactly going to walk into a performance review with your boss and say, “So, my top two values are ‘integrity’ and ‘curiosity.’” (Wel...
The Rule of Five: Consistent Persistence Before Chicken Soup for the Soul sold 500 million copies, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen faced 144 rejections. Even after a small publisher accepted the manuscript, the book took 14 months to reach a bestseller list. During that time, the authors kept m...
Why Governance Is Now a Leadership Capability Governance used to mean who had access to certain files, or who could sign off on a big project for a client. In the age of AI, however, governance has become an essential leadership skill that determines whether your business is run in a way that is eth...
Presence Is About Removing Interference, Not Adding Charisma Cuddy defines presence as a moment-to-moment ability to access and express what we actually think, value, feel and know. That definition matters because it takes presence out of the exclusive province of the naturally charismatic. As she p...
Empathy Is a Learnable Skill, Not a Fixed Trait Most of us would say we value empathy and try to bring it to our relationships and interactions. But empathy is more complex than simply caring about people or trying to understand how they feel. And there can be a significant gap between believing we’...
Why Employees Resist Change Resistance often isn’t just a bad attitude. Across four Leadership IQ studies involving more than 79,000 employees and leaders, only 15% of employees say they always understand the rationale behind their organization’s strategy. That gap matters. The studies found that un...
Leading Is Priceless: Who Is Thom Mayer and Why Leadership Matters Thom Mayer has led where the stakes could not be higher. He is the medical director of the National Football League Players Association, he served as Command physician at the Pentagon on 9/11, he helped write the original NFL concuss...
Jennifer Marcou spent decades in leadership roles at Microsoft and American Express, reaching vice president and general manager positions and managing hundreds of people. She has also coached hundreds of professionals, many of them introverts. Her new book, Lead with Quiet Confidence: A Practical G...
