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Are you leading or just dancing in circles?

 Too many leadership teams treat decision making like a maypole dance — lots of circling, everyone lookin...

Clarity is Everything

What can go right: A team that knows exactly what success looks like will move faster, collaborate better, and make smarter dec...

When you first wrote your business plan, what kind of economic world did you imagine?

• Stable growth?

• Predictable inflation?

• A reliable

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I used to think managing my career meant figuring it all out myself — knowing exactly where I was headed and getting there through sheer grit.

But...

AI is no longer knocking on the door. It’s in the room, sitting at the table and quietly rewriting how work gets done. For leaders, the question is no...

In the world of professional development, leadership skills are not just cultivated through formal training programs or academic qualifications. In...

 I thought everything was going well. Suddenly, I’m redundant. Why?

Redundancy is one of the most professionally and emotionally disruptive experienc...

 Leading through redundancies: how to make tough decisions without breaking trust

Redundancies are never just a business decision. They are personal....

To keep a company running leaders often have to make tough decisions. Sometimes it’s easier to make the decision than to talk about the truth that lie...

 Remember that old joke from the First World War.  “Send reinforcements, we’re going to advance” decides the General.  By the time it reaches its dest...

When did you last take a hard look at your suppliers?

I began my career in procurement at IBM—long enough ago that the global supply chain looked ver...

What does the Leadership Team do all day?

This is a question I hear often, usually followed by: "I never see my boss, he’s always in a meeting!"

The...