Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
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 Artistry in Communication: Where Leadership Comes Alive
Executive communication is often taught as a process of alignment — aligning messages with culture, strategy, operations, and tactical missions. That’s necessary but not sufficient. The artistry lies not in…
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Bring Yourself to Work
There are few career inflection points more challenging, or requiring more thoughtful planning, than assuming a position of leadership. We unconsciously acquire bits of our leadership persona over the course…
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Leadership Transition Lessons from the NFL
Leadership transitions are rarely about failure. They’re about timing. They’re about trajectory. And they’re about whether an organization believes its next chapter requires a different kind of leadership than the…
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High Stakes Landmines for Technology Executives
By Jeff Scott with George Bradt High-stakes onboarding landmines are everywhere for new technology executives, but few are as deadly—and as fixable—as a misaligned role. Being the right technology leader…
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How to Elevate Executive Performance and Delegate the Rest
Most leaders are doing too much, and not enough. Too much of the wrong work, not enough of the right work. The answer is not more effort. It is leverage.…
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Preparing For The Next Point Of Inflection With Contingency And Capability Plans
The next point of inflection is coming whether you’re ready for it or not. Your success as a leader doesn’t hinge on your ability to predict the future, but on…
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The Single Most Important Idea In My 974 Forbes Articles
I contributed 974 articles to Forbes between January 20, 2011, and December 8, 2025. The single most important idea running through that body of work is that the most effective…
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