To what we assume would be Ted Lasso’s consternation – or is it delight? – the last fifteen months have come with a heavy side of semantic satiation. “Social distancing.” “Unprecedented times.” “New normal.” “Boomerang worker.” And now: “Turnover tsunami.” …
The last time we counted down to midnight seems both ten minutes and ten years ago, thanks to the tumultuous time warp of 2020. A strong start (hello, January and February) flipped almost overnight into a bewildering lockdown and, for …
Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core, has been tackling this question for over twenty years. IFYC is one of the classic greatness-started-in-the-garage stories most commonly seen out of Silicon Valley – although in this case, it’s less “building microchips …
*Please note: In this article, the word “women” is used inclusively of all female-identifying leaders. It’s day 6,521 of quarantine. You boot up your laptop, open your inbox, and see approximately 742 new messages — all beginning with, “I …
Martin de Porres was one of the few people in this world who did not have to delegate. As a 15th-century Peruvian saint known to bilocate, he probably found existing in two places at once to be very helpful in …
In the movie Clear and Present Danger, James Earl Jones tells Harrison Ford’s Jack Ryan: “Your word is who you are.” Now, James Earl Jones can say just about anything and make it sound like the ultimate piece of wisdom, …
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 …
If the Titanic had managed to steer clear of the iceberg, the next steps would have been pretty straightforward: stay the course, and continue to keep an eye out for exceptionally large hunks of frozen water. However, in most cases, …
Culture rinses through an organization like a dye: it touches everything. One of our clients was reminded of this recently, as the leadership team reflected on the company’s growth and their plans for the future. A central question that arose …
The COVID-19 pandemic has surpassed unprecedented business challenges to, in many cases, drive a stark shift in priorities. With the risk that anyone could fall ill, organizations are racing to establish emergency succession plans in the wake of the virus. …
