Category: Executive Onboarding
Leading Through the Next AI Wave By Turning Uncertainty Into Innovation
When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, many leaders are dealing with the same uneasy question: Where’s the return on all this AI investment? According to Dr. Mehdi Nourbakhsh, CEO of…
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Other-Focused Corporate Innovation: How Leaders Spark Creativity Beyond Themselves
Innovation fails when leaders make it about themselves. The most transformational breakthroughs come when leaders make it about others—their teams, customers, and the shared story that gives the organization meaning.…
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Learn From Rory McIlroy to Create and Capitalize on “Unfair Advantages”
Rory McIlroy didn’t cheat at the Masters this month. He simply used every bit of access, time, and insight available to him as a past champion to prepare at Augusta…
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CEO Exchange Insights on the Impact of AI on Cultural, Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Leadership
This note highlights the main ideas and insights from last week’s CEO Exchange around cultural, strategic, operational, tactical, and personal leadership at the CEO level. Most importantly, these CEOs now…
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Noses In, Hands Out: How Boards Know When to Advise CEOs Versus Direct
One of the most important questions facing boards of directors about how they are working themselves is: Are we deciding, or are we advising? When that line blurs, directors step…
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Leveraging AI as an Other-Focused Servant Leader Across the Seven Stages of Executive Onboarding (Current Best Thinking)
Around 40% of new leaders get fired, forced out, or quit within their first 18 months because they fail to fit, deliver, or adjust to change. That’s not just about…
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Why Effective Earnings Calls Must Deliver Information and a Credible Story
Every leadership decision and message affects your market valuation, because everything communicates. Nowhere is that clearer than in how a single earnings call can move your price/earnings multiple when results…
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The Essential Learning for CEOs from Ram Charan’s New Book, “China’s 90% Model”
Ram Charan’s new book, “China’s 90% Model: China Has America by the Throat. Here’s How to Fight Back and WIN” is the rare strategy book that is simultaneously well researched,…
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The Counterintuitive Advantage of Panicking Early
Panicking is bad. But panicking early is good because that means you won’t panic later. And therein lies the counterintuitive advantage of panicking early – those who panic early never…
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