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How to Keep a Transformation on Track
Long-term transformations rarely follow a fixed road map. As priorities shift, employees can become disoriented or fatigued. Your job as a leader is to keep the momentum even as the...
When to Collaborate and When to Compete
As markets become more connected, few companies can succeed entirely on their own. You may need to work with competitors on shared standards, systems, or industry-wide challenges. But too much...
Don’t Let “Leadership Drift” Stall Your AI Strategy
Leadership drift happens when you and your fellow leaders recognize the need for change individually but fail to act on it collectively. With AI, difficult strategic questions can get softened,...
Turn AI Adoption into Real Business Value
AI tools can save time without improving your bottom line. The problem often isn’t the technology itself, but how well it’s integrated into your workflows and decisions; if employees still ...
3 Ways to Lead Better Conversations
As a leader, the quality of your team’s conversations shapes the quality of its decisions. But productive conversations rarely happen by accident; you need to guide them intentionally. With a...
Build a Culture of Candor and Accountability
A culture of niceness can make work feel comfortable, but it can also weaken accountability and performance. When people avoid hard conversations, productive disagreements go unexpressed—and mediocre results can become...
Invest Smarter in Growth
Investing in growth is about more than deciding how much capital to spend. You also need to understand whether your investments support your strategy, how they work together, and whether ...
Don’t Plan Your Career Too Far in Advance
Long-term career plans are harder to rely on when work is changing quickly. Instead of trying to predict where you’ll be years from now, focus on making good decisions under...
Use AI to Improve Strategic Decisions
Strategy has always required making big choices with limited time and attention. That often means narrowing your options before you’ve fully explored what’s possible. AI gives you more room to...
Are You Less Willing to Take a Chance on Remote Hires?
Remote work can make it harder to develop inexperienced employees, tempting you to hire only candidates who can contribute immediately. But continually raising experience and credential requirements can weaken your...
Ensure Your Team Is Ready to Implement a New Strategy
A strong strategy can fail if your organization isn’t ready to execute. Before you launch a major initiative, assess whether the people involved have the commitment, capacity, and capabilities the...
Build a Hiring Intelligence System
Your competitors’ job postings can reveal where they’re investing before their plans become public. But occasionally scanning their careers page won’t give you much useful intelligence. You need to track...
Don’t Automatically Dismiss Job Hoppers
A history of frequent job changes can look risky when you’re hiring. But repeated moves can also signal an ability to adapt quickly to unfamiliar workplaces. Candidates who have navigated...
Build a Partnership with Your Board
As CEO, you’re accountable for the company’s performance—but you don’t have direct authority over one of the groups most critical to your success: the board. That relationship can become especially...
Retain Your Leadership Voice When Using AI
To maximize AI’s potential while ensuring you’re not losing the judgement, voice, and presence that makes your leadership style unique, communicate with words that carry your humanity. To use AI...
Wielding Influence When You Lack Authority
You won’t always have the authority to tell people what to do. Yet you may still need peers, leaders, or other teams to support your ideas and take action. Pushing...
Ensure Your Team Isn’t Wasting Time “Botsitting”
Many organizations are dealing with a new, invisible tax on employees’ time: botsitting. This is the untracked, unrewarded work of repeatedly checking, correcting, and stabilizing an AI system before its...
Use Agentic AI to Orchestrate Work Across Silos
AI can improve enterprise decisions only when the underlying work is clear. If processes are opaque, tangled, or dependent on informal knowledge, new technology will simply reinforce existing coordination problems....
Reduce the Mental Load on Your Team
Workload isn’t just about hours spent on a task. Your employees are also carrying the mental load of planning, managing relationships, and juggling between responsibilities. When those demands collide, focus...
Redesign Mentoring for the AI Era
As AI takes over routine work, employees lose valuable opportunities to build judgment through experience. You can restore that development by making mentoring more intentional. Focus on the skills future...