How leaders can rebuild their team’s confidence after a layoff
Leaders who rebuild team confidence after layoffs must act quickly and specifically to restore psychological safety.
HubSpot founder’s LinkedIn post thanking laid-off employees sparks criticism
A founder's public layoff thank-you post backfired, showing how performative empathy damages executive credibility.
How to Lead When Everyone Is Watching
HBR examines how executive behavior under scrutiny shapes credibility and what leaders must never do publicly.
Why Your Team Is Frustrated—And How to Fix Your Decision-Making Process
Team frustration often traces to opaque or inconsistent decision-making processes leaders can fix now.
Why AI’s easiest wins are misleading CEOs
McKinsey warns that AI's visible early wins are creating executive overconfidence about deeper organizational gains.
Apple’s New CEO Honored Steve Jobs With One Line. It Shows How to Lead After a Legend
Tim Cook's tribute to Jobs offers a model for leading credibly after a towering predecessor.
The six strategy roles a CEO must not delegate
McKinsey identifies six CEO-level strategy decisions that cannot be safely delegated without organizational risk.
When Hiring Managers Keep Asking for More Candidates, the Problem May Be the Hiring Brief
When hiring managers keep demanding more candidates, the job brief itself is usually the broken variable.
Dear all: how bosses should talk to the troops
FT examines how executives should communicate directly with employees and what tone and approach actually builds trust.
Americans are growing tired of CEOs lecturing them on social issues
Americans are increasingly turned off by CEO activism, signaling real reputational risk for opinionated executives.
What can we learn from the office AI superusers?
AI superusers inside offices are modeling habits that all executives can study to accelerate their own adoption.
how can I encourage my staff to bring me complaints?
Ask a Manager offers concrete tactics for creating the psychological safety employees need to surface complaints.
Research: The True Cost of Corporate Scandals? Talent.
HBR research finds corporate scandals' most lasting damage is talent loss, not fines or press coverage.
How employee anxiety masquerades as performance, then backfires
Employee anxiety mimics high performance until it collapses, posing a hidden retention and culture risk.
Ernst & Young Is Giving $100 Million in Bonuses to Staff for ‘Human’ Skills
EY commits $100 million in bonuses explicitly rewarding human skills as AI reshapes the workplace.
A Compelling Story Can Disarm Even a Skeptical Negotiator
MIT Sloan research finds a well-constructed story can shift even resistant negotiators, a tool every executive communicator needs.
5 Ways to Make Office Days More Meaningful for Employees
Research-backed strategies help executives make in-office days genuinely worthwhile rather than obligatory and resented.
How QVC kept its cool after a live TV mishap
QVC's live TV mishap response offers a replicable model for calm, credible crisis communications in real time.
A New Way to Address Troubled Team Dynamics
MIT Sloan introduces a fresh framework for diagnosing and repairing dysfunctional team dynamics.
‘There Are No VPs, SVPs’—Why Hut 8 Eliminated Most Traditional Job Titles
Hut 8 eliminated VP and SVP titles entirely, signaling a structural rethink of hierarchy and status.