Do you remember what remote work looked like before the pandemic? Now that it is (ostensibly, your mileage may vary) over, what is the state of long-distance work in 2024? I’ve been thinking about this a lot. As we look forward to the updated version of The Long-Distance Leader on September 17 (you can preorder it
All wise (and lasting) organizations realize the need to develop leaders. Whether at the frontline, leaders of leaders or even at the senior level, forward-looking organizations look for a variety of ways to develop their leaders. Gone are the days of sending people to a single workshop and expecting great results. As good as those sessions
How effective are your frontline leaders? Do they have the skills, insights, perspectives and confidence to lead in the ways you want and need them to? If your answer is an emphatic yes, congratulations. But if you have any hesitation or trepidation with your answer, stop and read on. Because having a plan and process
What has the impact of Return to Office policies been on employees? It’s almost impossible to tell definitively, because there are hundreds of thousands of companies making this decision, and almost as many variations of the policy as there are organizations grappling with it. One recent study, though, suggests that it’s having a negative impact
Things happen regularly that can shift or steal the focus of individuals, but there are a whole range of big events that can negatively impact team focus. It could be an internal change, a merger, a challenge for a teammate. But it could also be a major sporting event, storm, or new story. Whatever the
The level of political/ideological division in the United States (and I believe the world) is as great as it has been in my lifetime. And that division has increasingly become unhealthy and unhelpful in helping us as a society build a better future. Division isn’t really the problem though – destructive division is. What follows
The phrase transformational leadership was coined by James MacGregor Burns in his book Leadership in 1978. The idea and ideal of this leadership style has been studied, talked about, and sometimes misunderstood ever since. At the core, transformational leadership is a style that focuses on inspiring and motivating people to achieve their highest potential while
In a world of work that is more knowledge-based than ever, effective thinking skills are among the most valuable skills to possess and for an organization to covet. Yet many organizations, in unintentional ways, are keeping people from thinking, or are hindering their ability to think at their best. If you want better organizational results,
In a world of uncertainties, there are two things I am confident about. Organizations will introduce changes, and many of those change efforts fail. Organizational change is complex, and so it isn’t surprising it’s hard. While risking oversimplification, I’m revealing one (big) reason change efforts fail. The reason is underappreciated – in other words if we
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