At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders at all levels grappled with never-before-experienced challenges, and decisions generally came down from the top about how organizations would respond. Employees looked to leadership to clarify ambiguity and provide direction. Now, as …
Frustrations are mounting as Gen Z gets plugged into organizations; the big question is whether the problem is young adults in the workplace, or elder generations struggling to effectively integrate new values systems into their cultures? The disconnect between Gen …
You don’t expect to hear Donald Rumsfeld quoted at a biology conference on the Galapagos Islands. However, that is exactly what happened in June of 2005, a few months after Rumsfeld’s infamous press briefing in which he spoke about the …
In our work with family leaders, we commonly get asked questions like: Is the next generation ready to lead the family enterprise? How will they change the vision of the business? Can they be plugged into x, y, or z …
I worked recently with a CEO (let’s call her Elaine) who was deeply confounded by a sudden change in her effectiveness. Her niche organization had found solid business footing with steady margins, but available-now resources and the ability to scale …
We recently sat down with our friend, Doug Grissom, a Managing Director at Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm that has raised about 23 billion of capital from its investors. What started as a conversation around the recent …
The next generation of leaders – Millennials or Gen Y – are subject to a fair degree of scrutiny these days. As we said about Millennials last week, this attention is understandable, partially because of the importance of incoming generations for …
In his TED Talk, Stanley McChrystal discusses the importance of leadership in high stakes, military situations. He suggests that “the speed, the scrutiny, the sensitivity of everything now is so fast, sometimes it evolves faster than people have time to really reflect on …
