Why Doing the Right Thing Is So Hard Issue 220, July 10, 2025 Imagine that you live and work in a surveillance state—a place where things just happen with no explanation, people show up and disappear, everyone is being watched,…
True Loyalty: The Best Last Experience Is Your Next Minimum Expectation How Does an Organization Create True Customer Loyalty? Issue 219, July 3, 2025 Sam Walton said, “Your best last experience is your next minimum expectation.” In 2025, these words…
Signal vs. Noise: A Mid-Year Framework for Navigating Transformation in the Age of Overload A Summer Solstice Pause for Strategic Clarity Issue 218, June 26, 2025 With a continuous barrage of public opinion about the pros and cons of new…
Survival Mode Leadership: The Hidden Costs of Managing by Fear Issue 217, June 17, 2025 When employees hear their manager’s footsteps approaching, their palms shouldn’t start sweating. When a team meeting is called, hearts shouldn’t race with dread. Yet across…
The Leadership Paradox: Why AI Should Make Us More Human, Not Less Who’s the Fittest to Survive? Issue 216, June 12, 2025 We’ve all been taught Charles Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest. The theory has ruled in…
Measuring What Matters: Navigating the KPI Labyrinth in an Era of Information Overload Issue 215, June 5, 2025 Let’s get to the bottom line up front: In a business environment drowning in data, the organizations that will thrive are those…
Navigating Whiplash: Effective Leadership in the Era of Volatility Issue 213, May 22, 2025 Turbulence. Unpredictability. Volatility. Whiplash. Imagine that you are a retailer today trying to figure out how to plan for an uncertain future in terms of tariffs,…
How Understanding Personality Types Improves Team Performance Issue 212, May 15, 2025 Most effective leaders have come up with a way to manage the range of personalities that make up their executive and managerial teams. Without understanding what motivates others’…
Double-Edged Code: How AI Creates and Resolves Its Own Ethical Dilemmas Issue 210, May 1, 2025 From time to time we write about AI and its potential to change society, how humans think (or not), and how humans may alleviate…
Being Human in the Age of AI: Where We Are Heading Now and into 2035 Issue 209, April 24, 2025 If you’ve been working with any Large Language Model (LLM) – ChatGPT, Claude, et al. – you’ve probably noticed how…