Bold Leadership Is Needed in Complex Times – Adrian Gore
Prudence, innovation and positivity are vital to succeed in our interconnected world….. It seems clear that in a world with emerging stakeholder capitalism, environmental, social and corporate governance, and important social movements including Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement, leadership needs to have purpose and authenticity — a post-Covid-19 period is likely to accentuate […]
Political Incompetence Can Be As Deadly As COVID-19 – David Jimenez, New York Times
David Jimenez MADRID — Politicians here seem to be mystified as to why Spain is, once again, the European country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. They have blamed the recklessness of youth, our Latin inability to keep our distance, and even immigration. And yet all this time the answer has been right under their […]
The CEO Moment – Leadership For A New Era – McKinsey
Leadership For A New Era – McKinsey COVID-19 has created a massive humanitarian challenge: millions ill and hundreds of thousands of lives lost; soaring unemployment rates in the world’s most robust economies; food banks stretched beyond capacity; governments straining to deliver critical services. The pandemic is also a challenge for businesses—and their CEOs—unlike any they have […]
Steve Jobs – ‘1980 Video’ – When Apple was 4 Years Old!
‘Leadership Vision’ and articulating what the future will bring! Brilliant leadership from a 25 year old!
Survival Skills from the CEOs of Nike & UPS – Gary Burnison
Gary Burnison is CEO of Korn Ferry and the author of Leadership U: Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve “In my career, I used to think, ‘I can’t communicate if I don’t have the answers.’ By definition, in periods of uncertainty, we don’t have the answers.” John Donahoe, President and CEO of Nike, summed up the […]
Michelle Obama’s 2020 Democratic National Convention Speech
The following speech by former U.S.”First Lady,” Michelle Obama, was made at the virtual Democratic Convention on August 17, 2020. While it is an explicitly political speech, urging votes for Joe Biden, it is also a speech that lays out the criteria of great leadership, focusing on the essential leadership quality of empathy — not […]
Women Score Higher Than Men in Most Leadership Skills – Jack Zenger & Joseph Folkman, Harvard Business Review
For the first time in history, a major political party in the United States has several women who have declared their candidacy to be their party’s presidential nominee. But TV pundits have been questioning whether, despite the progress indicated by the huge influx of women elected into Congress last fall, the U.S. is ever going […]
Coronavirus Tests the Leadership Style of Goldman Sachs’ CEO – Kate Kelly, New York Times
The pandemic has given David Solomon a chance to try out a more open-minded approach in tune with the bank’s young workforce….. David M. Solomon started 2020 on his back foot. Mr. Solomon had been on the job as chief executive of Goldman Sachs, perhaps Wall Street’s most storied and vilified institution, for just over […]
For Many Workers There’s A Key Question Employers Should Be Asking – Todd Connor & Emily Drake
There are ways for leaders to cultivate the compassion our workplaces need right now! Todd Connor: We’ve been talking this week about the elevated consideration we have now—an expectation, really—for compassion from our leaders in the workplace. Compassion would have previously been seen as a nice-to-have, but the implications of COVID have raised that stake to […]
Congrats on Your New CEO Job! Maybe One Day You’ll Get to Meet Your Employees – By Chip Cutter
Your office is closed. You can’t travel. You’re having essential meetings via Zoom. Oh, and the coronavirus is upending the global economy. What it’s like to take a CEO job now. Here is a challenge for all new CEOs and for all existing CEOs. But the author makes a slip — equating CEO with being […]