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 […]
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 […]
Restoring the Soul of Business – Staying Human In The Age of Data – Rishad Tobaccowala
If you think you can benefit from straightforward advice you should read this book…..! This book is packed with ideas that leaders can use to improve themselves as individuals and as leaders.[1] Tobaccowala divides his ideas into three sections: The Challenge: Carbon-Based Analog, Feeling Human in a Silicon-Infused, Digital, Data-Driven World Counterbalancing Machines, Screens, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Maintaining Employee Engagement Through Virtual Work – Professor Marvin Zonis
Employee engagement is a key to firm productivity and profitability. The commitment of any firm’s workers to the firm’s leaders and its mission are at the basis of their performance. Satisfactory employee engagement before the switch to virtual work raises leadership challenges: how to maintain that level of engagement and commitment while employees work from […]