CEO Insights

Use these 5 communication checkpoints to refine your communication style and inspire action.  Whether you are a leader of a team or an individual contributor, effective communication is essential for collaboration and progress at work. Many people don’t realize that communication is not only about what you communicate but also...

Organizational flux, personal concerns and mass uncertainty about the future of work and business all contribute to a uniquely challenging situation for executive leadership teams. Social isolation exacerbates the situation and can lead to a “hunker down” mentality that poses leadership challenges and disrupts normal recovery resources. More than ever,...

Picture this: Your last three strategic plans returned only between 60% to 70% of what was expected. You tried improving execution in the first case, but realized your strategy needed to change. Then in the second case you changed the strategy, but found poor execution was to blame. Now, in...

Organizations must rethink how they identify future leaders – today’s practices are often influenced by unconscious bias and result in unintentional discrimination, leaving potentially more capable talent behind.    Little progress has been made in achieving diversity in leadership roles. At the current rate of improvement, women may hold only one...

Many leaders simply manage and it is the opposite. Leadership falls into the functions of management and is at the core of being a great manager. Without great leadership a manager is stagnant only concerned for the status-quo. Leadership, being the core of management, is crucial to and organization’s success----both...

Oh, what a difference a few weeks makes! In early March, most Americans were carrying on with their daily lives and work routines without inhibition. But within a few dramatic days, everything changed thanks to a single pathogen: COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Now, many folks are cooped up in their...

There is a common misconception among corporate leaders that the most effective method to enact change is through tough leadership, ultimatums, and punishment for bad behavior. A new nonprofit recently launched with a singular mission in mind:  to challenge this corporate culture and educate leaders on the benefits of respectful...

When it comes to building leaders, there is an inundating stampede of advice from out there encouraging aspiring professionals to act on their impulses. Every Silicon Valley entrepreneur, auto-biographing politician, and overnight success story inspires leaders to take a leap of faith, be brave, break rules, conquer whatever fear is...

To rehumanize leadership, we will have to overcome an industrial age worldview that taught us to define ourselves and our organizations as closed and fragmented black boxes. This approach did seem to work well as long as the world functioned as a linear and a closed system. So, the strategy...

In 1955 the psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham developed a model to help people better understand their relationship with themselves and others. They called it ‘’Johari’s Window’’.  In 2000, the author and philosopher Charles Handy developed a leadership and management tool based on Luft’s and Ingham model and called...