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Rob Dobi What’s wrong with loyalty? Isn’t it a virtue to display steadfast allegiance to something or someone other than oneself? After all, loyalty has been celebrated as a virtue across many cultures for millennia. As economic headwinds and a tough job market appear to be empowering more authoritarian styles of leadership, it’s a good […]
Rob Dobi The Research This article draws on a four-year ethnographic study of a professional services firm whose leaders initiated a major transformation to reverse declining performance. The research involved nearly 760 hours of observation across leadership and project team meetings, more than 300 interviews, and analyses of internal documents spanning the full life of […]
HERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2026 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. The Executive Condition: The Hidden Health Crisis of High-Performing Leaders by Denis Cronson High performers aren't burning out—they're breaking down. The Executive Condition exposes how modern leadership accelerates biolog
An end-to-end process for tapping into AI’s hidden creativity
Apophenia is the uniquely human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or connections in random or unrelated data, events, or objects. Humans are story telling machines. And one thing we do is turn co-incident events into more than coincidences. When we see faces and shapes in clouds, apophenia wastes our time in the form of pareidolia. […]
Here is a selection of Posts from August 2026 that you will want to check out: What Launches an Organization or Initiative Isn’t What Sustains It from @AdmiredLeaders No Excuses: Lesson #1 from a Lifetime of Leadership by @TomBrady When you’re explaining, you’re losing Write Down Your Purpose Statement and Read It Each Day by @JonGordon11 Your Culture Is Built by What You Celebrate by @daveferguso
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Listen now | 🎙️ PM Daniel Blum walks through the exact Cowork and Claude setup that manages his Notion, tracks his tasks across Slack and email, and self-improves every week without him lifting a finger
Photo courtesy DHL John Pearson has been CEO of DHL Express and on the DHL Group board of management since 2019. He joined the global logistics and courier company in 1986 and has held senior management positions in its divisions in the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S., and Europe. MIT Sloan Management Review […]
Ivan Diaz/Unsplash Human beings are not good at separating fact from fiction. But surely hard-nosed B2B professionals are different? Our research suggests otherwise. In two experiments with 622 B2B sales professionals, we gave participants a negotiation scenario in which a buyer either lied or told the truth. We then gave half the participants a story […]
Microsoft Copilot/Unsplash Companies are betting that AI chatbots will deliver faster and cheaper customer service. But if you’ve ever tried to circumvent a chatbot and get to a human, you’re not alone. Here’s what three recent studies discovered about when customers will and won’t let AI do a human’s job. 1. Customers avoid chatbots for […]
Nimble Made/Unsplash Getting manager buy-in for a good idea is harder than it should be. Our research points to a communication style that reliably breaks through this wall — and that is disproportionately exhibited by white-collar employees with working-class origins. We studied how employees present ideas to their managers by conducting a field survey of […]
Frederick Taylor taught Henry Ford how to do mass production. Deming brought quality, systems understanding and respect for the worker. And operations research brought insight. If you have a repeated production process, the method for improving it is almost always the same, regardless of what you and your team produce: 1. Measure before you change. […]
Listen now | Tara Seshan, head of Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI, on why ambition is now the differentiator, steering vs. rowing, and why you need to build for where the models will be in two to three months
The first day of classes, some students slouch in the back row, unprepared and uninterested. Some are up front, eager and ready. But it’s only the morning of the first day–these attitudes aren’t related to the teacher. It’s a pattern, one that is the result of culture, systems and personality. Many of these students have […]
A collection of community wisdom addressing practical product challenges: building software without clear requirements, pre-launch customer acquisition, pricing strategies for B2B SaaS, and insights from navigating a prolonged job search.
Snap, crackle and pop. A set of German-made socket wrenches can turn a bolt in a similar way to a cheaper alternative, but it feels far more rewarding. More than forty years ago, I started using a Mac. The first thing one noticed was hard to put words on–everything about it simply clicked better. The […]
Jeremy Siegel, Wharton emeritus professor of finance and senior economist at WisdomTree, discusses tariffs, rising bond yields, federal deficits, AI stocks, and what could drive markets through the fall. … Read More
WORRIED about AI? You’re not alone. About three-quarters of adults have concerns about where AI is taking us. And no wonder. Doomsayers predict that AI could destroy humanity. Evangelists promise that it will usher in a golden age. The truth is that nobody knows exactly what’s coming. But you can prepare yourself to succeed. Consider a thought experiment. Two explorers are trekking through a hosti
For fifteen or twenty years, this question is relentlessly answered, whether or not we ask it. After we learn fractions, the teacher moves on to decimals. After we read O’Connor, we’re handed Faulkner. In music history, Debussy follows Brahms. Chemistry after biology. It persists in some places after school… the museum hangs Picasso in the […]
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