The Cost of Silence: Unlocking the Wisdom Hidden Within Your Team
With only 23% of employees globally engaged at work, it is staggering to imagine the untapped innovation hidden within the other 77%. Last year, I was hired by a company […]
MLK’s Leadership Revolution: The Power of Letting Others Lead
Does the thought of public speaking give you stomach cramps? You are not alone. As a public speaker, I hear a lot of people talking about how afraid they are […]
Confessions of a Reformed Control Freak: Courageously Letting Go to Lead Better
I am not a courageous man. And letting go of control takes a lot of courage. But I was lucky. Early in my career, I had the opportunity to study […]
Innovation Doesn’t Trickle Down (It Bubbles Up)
It was a preposterous idea said in jest and in response to the frustration the allied soldiers felt about the dreaded bocage or hedgerows that had trapped the allied invasion […]
Gratitude as Liberation: A Leader’s Path to Joy
What if it didn’t need to be this hard? I love Thanksgiving. And as Stacey and I find ourselves in a super fantastic Airbnb for the holiday, I know I […]
Beyond Control: The Collective Future of Leadership
It was 1 AM on the last Monday of June and I had been trying to get to sleep for hours. My mind was racing, and I was super anxious […]
Harder Than Expected: Why I Went Silent and the Challenges of Change
Reflecting on my past 6 months, I realized that the nomadic lifestyle – letting go of material constraints mirrored the shift I’m advocating for leadership: Letting go of command-and-control to […]
Lightening the Load: Lessons on the Road to Unencumbered
The first leg of our adventure of leaving our home in Brooklyn in search of a new and more fulfilling life is coming to an end; it’s time for the […]
The Tipping Point: Why Today’s Workplace Can’t Afford to Ignore Purpose
In 2011, I thought the world was about to change dramatically. I was wrong. For the previous three years, I had the fortunate opportunity to interact with brilliant minds like […]
Setting HR Up for Failure: Why Recruiting Needs a Revolution
“But he doesn’t have any of the requirements!” These were the words spoken to my friend, a director in the quantitative analysis group at a major investment management firm, by […]
A New Declaration of Independence: Unshackling Ourselves for a Brighter Tomorrow
Michael Franti was out in the audience, again. This time he was standing on a small platform at the back of Central Park summer stage that was between me and […]
Purpose Over Mission: Knowing “Why” is more important than “Where & How”
It was a cool fall day in 1998. I was walking with a friend in the East Village of New York City. She was telling me how she had just […]
The Language of Culture: How Defining Purpose Transforms Organizations
After I gave a talk on the importance of recruiting and culture, a CEO approached me and was concerned that the culture of his company was “not that good.” He […]
Terrible Guardians of Culture: Why CEOs Need to Rethink Their Role and Embrace Change
OK, so this is going to be a controversial statement, so sit back, gird your loins, and get ready because here it comes… CEOs should not be the guardians of […]
Ted Lasso – The Leader We All Need Right Now
Let’s face it – the world is a messy place right now. The destruction levied by the effects of climate change, democracy is faltering all over the world, and the […]
Command and Control? Chaos with Lipstick
By Peter Laughter and Chris Paliani “Hmm… that sounds like chaos.” This is one of the most common responses we’ve gotten in our articles on distributed leadership. To which we […]
The Opposite of Conflict Averse? How our vocabulary makes us bad at conflict
So my wife, daughter and I just finished watching the Netflix Family Drama “Atypical” and it was awesome. It is about a family of 4 where the oldest child, Sam, […]
Vulnerability, Trust and Penguins
If you have ever seen a waddle of penguins (and yes, that is the technical term for a group of penguins on land) on an ice flow, right before they […]
