Succession is a current-quarter issue, not a future one Most leaders treat succession as a future problem. They will think about it next year, after the
Candor without casualties Most leaders are either good at hard conversations or good at relationships. The rare leader is good at both, and the reason the
Where decisions actually live or die Every organization has a real meeting and an official meeting. The official meeting is the one on the calendar. The
The judgment calls no spreadsheet can make for you Every executive I know has more data than they did five years ago. Dashboards are sharper, reports
The real cost of the decision that keeps getting pushed Most leaders could name it in ten seconds. The decision that has been hanging over the
Every leader is transmitting something below the level of words. Before the strategy is read and before the decision is announced, the room is already calibrating
