Leadership

Leadership Strategy

This month - I’ve been in collaboration with another community designer — and we’ve had some amazing conversations about how Kelly Ann McKercher (them/they) is a designer, author and co-design coach based on stolen Gadigal Lands in Australia.

How leaders can make a difference in the second year of the pandemic

Referrals make a difference. You want to be the person they refer others to.

Now that the branding is focused on this product being “plant-based” food, many people have accepted “plant-based cheese” as a great alternative to animal-based cheese.

Virtual production has enabled the dazzling visual effects in mega-blockbusters like Avatar and Avengers: Endgame. It’s going to revolutionize animation next.

Anti-cultures can creep into the best of environments, with employees not buying into a change suggested by the leader or organization.

Leaders invest time and energy to craft communications but too often they are less effective than the leader would like. Why? Lack of connection, often the missing link, but one that can be fixed.

Oftentimes managers like to imagine their team or leadership style as democratic. But is a place of work a democracy? Of course not. And every leader or entrepreneur needs to bear this in mind because free riders are a barrier to growth and innovation.

EasyJet has announced that it will charge to bring large bags onboard beginning next year. This idea, started 10 years ago, brings airlines operational, cost and revenue benefits while reducing crew injuries and speeding up boarding. More airlines are likely to adopt this as a result.

A 2013 article in the New York Times said that 2012 was the breakout year for Big Data. The promise of Big Data was enticing, take digital data from the web that was too large for traditional data processing, apply new software technologies for mining and find the solutions for unlimited problems.

The accountants can only offer so much insight. Growth prospects are key.

History offers centuries worth of case studies to guide us toward building a better future.

The 2020 ADP Research Institute Workplace Resilience Study of 26,594 people across 25 countries found that only 19% of the U.S. workforce feels highly resilient. Here are four ways employees and leaders can take action to increase workplace resilience.

Business leaders must deal with challenges unique to their industries, institutions and times. But the range and complexity of today’s challenges, including titanic shifts in technology, society, geopolitics and the economy, are unprecedented in peacetime. This is why leadership really matters.

Not only does culture apparently eat strategy for breakfast, an organization’s culture also has massive impacts on performance, achieving results, and attracting and retaining talent. What are you doing to tap into the strength of your culture?