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AI won't save any company that doesn't decide differently

Artificial intelligence arrived in organizations loaded with expectations. For some, it's the great promise of productivity. For others, a threat that's hard to size up. Either way, it's credited with a power it doesn't actually have.

The onboarding of in-person work: how to recover the culture a screen can't convey

There's a line that circulates among executives who've spent years managing teams, and it captures the problem well: there's a whole generation that entered the workforce during the pandemic and never knew what it meant to go to an office.

Five Leadership Lessons for Building High-Performance Teams

The incredible journey of Ernest Shackleton aboard the Endurance, revisited by American author Patrick Lencioni in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, offers powerful insights for today’s business leaders.

Disconnecting to move forward: cognitive performance and productivity in the digital age

Work performance and productivityface new challenges in the digital age. The world of work has undergone a radical change in recent years, and the summer months are no longer an exception.

Every management team needs a Charlie Watts. Does your organization have one?

The Rolling Stones just started their new world tour in St. Louis, Missouri, but they’re no longer the Stones of old. A few weeks back, the great Charlie Watts, the band’s iconic drummer for over 50 years, passed away. Since then, a lot has been written...

Swimming in the deep

Organizations and their leaders must manage both their own emotions and those of others in different ways. It used to be that they could do this in successive steps, but now they have to manage everyone’s emotions at once. Managing emotions is one of the...

From leader to rockstar -- and from collaborator to fan

In the post-pandemic business world, meaningful relationships are your main competitive advantage. I think leaders have a lot to learn from rock bands. Last year, a few months after the start of the pandemic, I went to a Die Toten Hosen concert. Two...