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A mercurial billionaire bought and privatized one of the largest social media networks on a whim. Who isn't paying attention to how it will play out?

Lowering headcount is the first course of action for too many companies looking to cut costs. A more measured approach is required.

The time is now to build resilience into your organization.

Tech CEOs are laying off workers after predicting their COVID surges would persist. Here’s how they got it so wrong.

Progress has been slow to increase diversity in the leadership ranks for many companies. Here are some simple steps to start moving the needle.

Over the last few years, leaders have seen the damage that a lack of preparedness and resilience can cause. Now's the time to develop those powers.

Meta spent $25 billion on R&D this year but made $84 billion. The stock charts may seem dire, but they don’t tell the full story.

Ask yourself: am I focusing on tactics or strategy?

The multi-faceted and complex organizational challenges we face demand collaboration, not individual actions, to fully address them.

What’s really destabilizing the workplace?

A phenomena first noticed during the recession of 2009 reappeared in 2022. This is what it tells us about leadership.

The pandemic exacerbated two systemic weaknesses that persist today: over-reliance on how things worked in the past and lack of investment in risk awareness.

Disruption is nothing new, but too often leaders make excuses rather than building resilience. The Five Leadership Superpowers offer a way forward.

The role of an effective leader is to paint a picture of a future that’s more desirable than the status quo.

Emotional awareness, or the ability to skillfully manage your emotions, has been called "the essential skill of the 21st-century economy."

In the realm of decision-making, it would be great to be able to make good decisions quickly. But first, we need to make good decisions smoothly.

Don't frown over that last-minute request just yet. Research shows some pressure can actually help leaders perform better.

Over the years a variety of techniques to detail who’s who in making a decision have emerged, none of them perfect.

Google's Simplicity Sprint sounds good, but launching an efficiencies initiative at a time of economic duress seems like announcing layoffs under another name.

While we all like to believe we make rational decisions, the reality is we jump into decisions we justify later, with demonstrable impacts on our businesses.