If you’ve been leading for more than five minutes, you know uncertainty is part of the job. But lately, it feels like the volume has been turned up. While mergers, market shifts, reorganizations, and leadership changes have always happened. What’s different now is that many of our teams are remote or hybrid, which means the

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Lots has been written about the future of work – and how it will look different because of viruses, technology, and geopolitical change. There is little doubt that the future will be different. Recently I asked readers this question: as a leader, are you ready to lead in the future? It is a fair and

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We talk a lot about “getting buy-in.” As leaders, we often aim to gain it—for a new project, a big change, a new direction. And don’t get me wrong, buy-in is important. But here’s the thing:Buy-in is just the start.When we focus solely on buy-in, we’re setting the bar way too low. Think about it:

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When your manager leaves, who steps into her role? If a new position opens across the company, how do you make sure you’re considered—or even know it exists before it’s filled?Succession planning is a popular topic at HR and leadership conferences. But in many organizations, it’s seen primarily as a leadership or organizational issue. That’s

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) An article with this title could have been written anytime in my lifetime, and ideas for the future could have been shared. But I believe that as difficult as leadership has always been, when you look at the

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) There are plenty of ways we can learn, but one way that is as old as time, is now easier than ever. As our world has gotten bigger, our access to experts has grown. That has made the

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) We all ask questions every day, so many that we seldom stop to think about how to ask them more effectively. And if we do decide to work on our question-asking skills, we often focus on the words

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Hybrid work is here, but it doesn’t seem to get any more efficient. It doesn’t seem to actually address problems of engagement, morale or productivity. We ask: what’s optimum? Two days at home? Full time in the office? No matter what data you draw from, it seems that there’s a challenge few companies seem to

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