The "CC Everyone" epidemic isn't about transparency; it's about fear. Learn how CYA culture destroys organizational speed, ...

Take sleep timing, which underpins most high-performance routines. In a study of nearly 700,000 people, researchers identified hundreds of regions of the genome linked to whether someone leans toward ...

If your organisation feels slower than it used to, pay attention to where your leaders are hesitating: Waiting for more information. Waiting for the right time to have a difficult conversation. Or ...

Start reading from Part 1. Institutional permanence is rare because leaders won't be governed by their own rules. Most leaders design governance for the organisation, while very few design governance ...

What do you naturally bring to people? How are people made better when you’re at your best? What do people appreciate about you? Don’t obsess about weaknesses. Practical Project: Ask people who know ...

In my latest book, The 8 Laws of Employee Experience (based on over 100 CHRO interviews), I introduce a framework called the Empathetic Excellence Map. It came from a problem I kept seeing inside ...

There’s still beauty worth noticing. The fatigue is real. It seems like a lot of people are exhausted. Brains are overloaded. And, this is leading to unusual behaviour. I was walking by a taco place ...

This article is available in Bahasa Melayu and Indonesian. Halfway through the year, our goals may be coming into clearer focus as we make progress. Be it career milestones, personal ambitions, or ...

What if the next improvement isn't something new? I recently had the opportunity to spend time with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. If you don't know much about the Corps, they're one of those ...

In Part 1 of this series, we examined how talented people become psychological hostages, trapped not by circumstance but by the climate a leader creates around them. The question that emerged at the ...

Growth mindset has been on every company's values poster for a decade. In most companies, the poster is the entire program. There was a workshop in 2019. The L&D team ran an offsite. Carol Dweck got ...

Why reading, doing courses, and listening to podcasts is a perfectionist's most productive-looking way to avoid actually moving. One of the most convincing forms of procrastination you'll see in ...