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Don’t Mistake Hesitation for a Lack of Leadership Potential
When you’re developing internal leadership pipelines, enthusiasm to lead can look like readiness. But a hesitant candidate may understand the role’s demands better than someone eager to take charge. Before...
When a Competitor Copies Your Product
In the AI era, it’s becoming easier than ever for companies to mimic or clone successful products. While your first—and correct—instinct may be to take legal action, take a moment...
Are You Creating a Culture of Sleep Deprivation?
As a leader, when you praise late-night work or boast about how little sleep you’ve gotten, you’re signaling that sacrificing rest is a sign of commitment and productivity. But research...
Train Employees on Skills That Evolve with AI
Too many companies are treating AI skills as an ever-expanding checklist, leading to overwhelmed employees and disappointing results. A better approach is to focus training on a small set of...
Encourage Healthy Conflict on Your Leadership Team
When executives avoid challenging one another, issues can go unresolved and poor decisions can go unchecked. As a leader, your job is to create an environment where people feel comfortable...
The Power of Crisis Volunteering
As a manager, you’re always looking for ways to help your employees become more resilient, adaptable, and creative. Crisis volunteering can give them opportunities to develop these capabilities while supporting...
Set Yourself Up to Do Your Best Work
Your ability to stay motivated and persevere depends partly on your circumstances: the people around you, your physical environment, and your workplace culture can influence how you think and behave....
Tell a Clearer Story About AI
How you talk about AI shapes how your employees respond to it—and adopt it. Vague messages can leave people uncertain about what’s expected, while fear-based or productivity-focused narratives may fail...
Set the Right Work Tempo
Setting the right pace of work is a core leadership skill. Push too hard for too long, and you can exhaust your team. Move too slowly, and momentum can fade....
Don’t Confuse Communication Style with Competence
Research suggests the way someone communicates can shape how their social skills and potential are perceived. When a person’s speech and mannerisms feel familiar—for example, a Southern accent in the...
Don’t Let Technology Replace Learning
Your team has more access to knowledge than ever—but that doesn’t mean they’re actually learning. Research shows that when information is easy to retrieve, employees may focus on remembering where...
Build Support for Your Big Idea
You know what needs to happen and you’ve got a strong case for it. Getting other leaders to act, however, requires a different set of skills. To increase your influence,...
Create New Creative Processes to Adapt to AI
AI can help you move from an early idea to a polished output remarkably quickly. But that speed can also mean bypassing critical steps in developing and refining the work....
When an Underperformer Is Protected by Another Leader
When you inherit an underperformer that you can’t replace or hold fully accountable, you can end up owning results without having the authority to fix the underlying problem. Trying to...
Know When to Step into the Creative Process
How involved should you be in your team’s creative work? Former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the question is less about when you intervene than how much. He recommends giving...
Get More Done…Without Doing It All Yourself
Priority overload has become a defining condition of senior leadership. Taking on the extra work yourself can lead to burnout and pull you away from strategy. Pushing an already-stretched team...
Ensure Workplace Humor Is Well Received
Humor can help you connect with colleagues and make complex messages more memorable, but it can be a risky move. When a joke falls flat or people have to work...
What’s Causing Your Team’s Stress?
Employee stress is often treated as a workload problem. But pressure can also come from unclear roles or competing expectations. Different stressors call for different responses, so start by identifying ...
Are You Really a Good Collaborator?
As you become more senior, it can get harder to see how your behavior affects collaboration. You may think you’re being helpful while others experience you as dominating conversations or...
Build AI into the Flow of Teamwork
You may use AI throughout your individual workday, then leave it behind when you enter a team meeting. That’s a missed opportunity. AI can improve the work that happens before,...