Special Reports

Over these last couple of challenging years I’ve become increasingly concerned by the growing number of professionals in my Progress Leadership boot camps and in one-on-one coaching sessions who have shared with me their sense of being overwhelmed, underappreciated, and underpaid.  Workplace stress is rarely part of anyone’s job description, but it is...

The teacher's job is way more complicated than one may assume because it includes several steps that are not visible to the audience. The teacher is like the director of the movie. While he is the one who has made the most work everyone sees the actors. Remarkable organizational skills...

The most successful companies over the next couple of decades will be those that practice responsible innovation. They will seek to build technology that benefits all stakeholders, and try to foresee and avoid harmful unintended consequences.  But how? Doing all that requires thinking in ways that refute Silicon Valley’s conventional...

When we look at company top brass in the past year, we have seen more CEO successions than ever. In the aftermath of the crisis that COVID-19 has caused in many industries, people have started to be more observant and critical of their leadership, and boards have started to rethink...

When the world closed down last year, stringent preventive measures were taken to control the spread of the dangerous virus. While the governments and scientists worked in tandem to figure out a way to tackle this problem, everyone was asked to stay indoors and engage in social distancing. Everything around...

The workplace as we know it is changing, and it requires more flexibility than ever. But when we say “flexibility,” what do we really mean? Many organizations say that they’re offering flexibility by offering a “hybrid” schedule, one in which employees work from home on certain days and at the...

Drilling down on problem solving sharpens our critical thinking skills. We are presented with problems every day, in our businesses, our careers, and our family lives. (Of course, on a broader scale, our country faces many challenges each day, and when we hone our critical thinking skills, we are in...

Small and large businesses find themselves knee-deep in a severe pandemic. Sure, COVID-19 has created chaos across industries, but I’m referring to the great resignation. AKA “The Big Quit.” You know, the one where your most dependable and productive employees just pick up and leave. That one.  According to a...

Each of us has our own perspectives. We see the world through our own eyes. The uniqueness of our perspectives is what makes humanity such an intriguing and dynamic organism, one that is ever-changing and filled with limitless potential.  In previous installments to this series, readers learned how important having...

Kindness is the new SUPERPOWER for leaders and one of the reasons why we need more female leaders in this new era of leadership we are entering. It’s also a new and powerful form of currency: one that we can trade for loyalty, trust, and high performance.  However, kindness isn’t...