Senior leaders, even those who have had an executive coach, tell me they often need a trusted advisor—someone who goes beyond coaching and professional development to offer them an insurance policy.Read more
We base most important decisions on our beliefs about the likelihood of uncertain events such as the outcome of an election, the guilt of a defendant, or the future success of a stock. We typically express these beliefs with statements like “I think that,” “Chances are,” and “It’s unlikely that.”Read more
As my clients emerged from the global economic turmoil that began in 2008, they indicated they had learned numerous lessons—the most important one: When leaders make good decisions, little else matters. When they refuse to make decisions or show a pattern of making bad decisions, nothing else matters. As I helped these leaders position themselvesRead more
Generating explanations for human behavior has been a pastime since humans started having pastimes. Theoretical systems evolve as people try to account for individual differences in behavior and beliefs. Why do people behave the way they do? How do our beliefs drive our behavior and vice versa? Attempts to answer these questions have kept socialRead more
Bosses matter because they generate better results. That’s what the authors of “The Value of Bosses” found in their research. A variety of accepted econometric/statistical techniques showed that the most significant impact bosses have doesn’t come from their motivational skills; it comes from teaching workers how to be more productive, i.e., capability building. We alreadyRead more
