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Career Portfolio versus Career Path

I’ve been thinking a lot about the enormous transition that seems to be happening in the workforce today. Amidst so much change and uncertainty, how can we as leaders do better at finding talented employees – the people who make up the very foundation

Retention During the Great Resignation

This month’s Leadership Insight discusses a current event – The Great Resignation. Millions of Americans have left their jobs during the pandemic, which begs the question: What’s driven this exodus?Experts at Visier took a deep dive into this topic,

One Question for the End of the Year

As 2021 comes to a close, I am turning to a practice that helps crystallize my vision for the New Year. It involves asking myself an end-of-year question. This final Leadership Insight of the year focuses on a question that has been on my mind: Do I impact

Do You Have a Growth Mindset?

Last month, I wrote about the quality of grit and what leaders and teams stand to gain from it. A major predictor of grit is what Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, Ph.D., dubbed a “growth mindset.” That’s the belief that you can develop your

Instilling Grit in Yourself and Your Teams

In 2017 a colleague of mine, Matthew Brown, and three other adventurers set a Guinness World Record by completing a 3,000-mile, unassisted ocean race – the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Rowing Challenge – in 35 days. Under the best of circumstances, this

How to Stay Relevant as a Leader

3 Ways to Stay Relevant and Be Effective as a LeaderWhat do you do when old leadership paradigms are crumbling? If you want to stay relevant as a leader, you can’t avoid this question, especially with the frenetic pace of change in today’s world.What

Driving Continuous Improvement: The Postmortem and the Premortem

As a leader, one of your jobs is to minimize risk and help drive continuous improvement. A best practice in business that achieves both these objectives is the postmortem, also known as an end-of-project review. A less well-known practice is the premortem,

Transformed: Your Brain on Stories

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” No doubt, you’ve heard this maxim countless times. But perhaps it deserves a corollary: “A story is worth a million stats.”In his 1995 book, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, Howard Gardner brought