Founder’s Corner
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The next era of companies won’t be the biggest or the most efficient—they’ll be the closest and the most resilient.
You have to build the brakes before you need them—and make them strong enough to hold.
Talks of extreme events or conditions let us feel bold and visionary for an hour without challenging us to confront our blind spots or step into the unflattering realities of leadership. But isn’t it time we expected more from ourselves—and from the spaces designed to make us better leaders?
There’s a lot being written about Elon Musk and Twitter right now, but I wanted to address his leadership, what’s happening with leadership in general right now, and my own thoughts on continuing to use the platform.
The following is advice I have offered in the past to folks on my team struggling with their writing at work.
A collection of data and reporting from credible third-parties that paints the picture of the most tumultuous year of work in recent U.S. history
A craftsperson is someone who practices a trade or discipline with the ultimate goal of mastery. Anyone, in any discipline, can be a craftsperson if they so choose. Each and every one of us has the capacity to do good work of some kind.
If we want to build back better and foster greater organizational resilience, we must first define what “better” means, for whom the changes are meant, and how to begin.
To survive in a VUCA environment, we must re-conceptualize organizations and leadership