#interim-leadership
#interim-leadership

Dear Vicki: 'Annual performance reviews are disrupting my business. What could I do instead?'

Annual performance reviews disrupt business and can create negative feelings among staff.

10 hours ago

Why 'Just Start' Is Dangerous Advice for Entrepreneurs

Many founders neglect business planning, leading to reactive decisions and confusion between busyness and real progress.

#leadership

fromInc

17 hours ago

Growth hacking

Most Founders Get Leadership Wrong. Here's What Actually Works

Business

Ducati's North America CEO said 3 career moves kept him on track after more than 20 years at the motorcycle company

Bootstrapping

Your Management Strategy Is Doomed to Fail If You Don't Do This

Psychology

Yes, it's possible to lead without dominating. Here's how

18 hours ago

Jim Collins's leadership tips on how to frame your life for success

Jim Collins emphasizes the importance of both the right people and their roles in navigating life's transitions and achieving success.

Most Leaders Focus on Goals. They're Missing the Big Picture

Leaders must understand the broader context surrounding their plans to ensure successful outcomes.

fromInc

17 hours ago

Most Founders Get Leadership Wrong. Here's What Actually Works

Strong leadership is essential for business growth and requires setting boundaries and persistence.

Business

Ducati's North America CEO said 3 career moves kept him on track after more than 20 years at the motorcycle company

Bootstrapping

Your Management Strategy Is Doomed to Fail If You Don't Do This

Effective management focuses on execution through a straightforward approach: face reality, investigate issues, fix them systematically, and own the outcomes.

Yes, it's possible to lead without dominating. Here's how

Modern leadership requires balancing authority with openness, fostering shared ownership while delivering results, and avoiding the pitfalls of dominance.

18 hours ago

Jim Collins's leadership tips on how to frame your life for success

Jim Collins emphasizes the importance of both the right people and their roles in navigating life's transitions and achieving success.

Most Leaders Focus on Goals. They're Missing the Big Picture

Leaders must understand the broader context surrounding their plans to ensure successful outcomes.

Why women leaders are ditching the old workplace rulebook-and winning because of it

Women are moving away from outdated leadership models that prioritize control and dominance, seeking autonomy and flexibility instead.

6 hours ago

How to Get a "Yes" to Your Request

Using effective persuasion techniques can increase the likelihood of receiving a positive response to requests at work.

Left-wing politics

12 hours ago

America's CEOs have become reluctant guardians of democracy | Fortune

Business leaders have historically played a crucial role in promoting democracy and social justice in America.

Privacy professionals

15 hours ago

How to Turn Security From a Bottleneck Into a Revenue Driver

Deals stall due to buyers' inability to quickly verify security, not lack of security itself.

#management

19 hours ago

Remote teams

Jamie Dimon says if you want to win competitive battles, you need small 'Navy SEAL' teams to move faster

2 weeks ago

Philosophy

Our whole way of thinking about leadership is a century out of date

17 ideas on coaching new managers

Not every employee should move to management; coaching individual contributors is essential for their growth and success.

How can you spot a bad manager fast? Look for this 1 warning sign

Taking credit for employees' work leads to disengagement and is viewed as a detrimental managerial behavior.

Business

The Value of Leadership Training

19 hours ago

Jamie Dimon says if you want to win competitive battles, you need small 'Navy SEAL' teams to move faster

Jamie Dimon emphasizes the importance of small, focused teams for competitive success in his annual shareholder letter.

Philosophy

2 weeks ago

Our whole way of thinking about leadership is a century out of date

Modern management practices rooted in outdated principles treat employees as costs rather than valuable contributors, hindering motivation and performance.

17 ideas on coaching new managers

Not every employee should move to management; coaching individual contributors is essential for their growth and success.

How can you spot a bad manager fast? Look for this 1 warning sign

Taking credit for employees' work leads to disengagement and is viewed as a detrimental managerial behavior.

Business

The Value of Leadership Training

more#management

Tech industry

2 days ago

Goodbye, middle managers. Hello, 'player-coaches' and 'org leads.'

Meta and Block are redefining managerial roles to embrace AI, with Meta introducing 'org leads' and Block using 'player-coaches'.

Bootstrapping

Clear Job Responsibilities Helps You Grow Faster - Here's How

Deliberate governance design is essential as companies grow to avoid confusion and inefficiency.

Fundraising

How giving starts progress and leadership scales it

Volatility and accountability are transforming philanthropy, requiring leadership to drive impactful change.

Stakeholder Confidence in the Age of Digital Threats: PR as a Security Asset

Cybersecurity involves both technical measures and effective communication to maintain stakeholder trust during incidents.

Information security

Boards Are Falling Short on Cybersecurity

Boards recognize the need for cybersecurity investments, yet the worsening cybercrime situation suggests governance may be deteriorating.

Information security

fromSecuritymagazine

Stakeholder Confidence in the Age of Digital Threats: PR as a Security Asset

Cybersecurity involves both technical measures and effective communication to maintain stakeholder trust during incidents.

Information security

Boards Are Falling Short on Cybersecurity

Boards recognize the need for cybersecurity investments, yet the worsening cybercrime situation suggests governance may be deteriorating.

more#cybersecurity

#ai

Artificial intelligence

McKinsey's new AI leadership playbook: flatten teams and move faster

Philosophy

The Leadership Skill That's Quietly Fading in the Age of AI

AI-driven efficiency risks diminishing deep thinking, leading to a loss of original understanding and nuanced insight among leaders.

AI adoption isn't the hard part, it's building employee agency | Fortune

AI empowers non-coders to execute ideas, requiring companies to foster safe, effective environments for employee agency and innovation.

Artificial intelligence

Is the org chart dead in the age of AI? LinkedIn's chief economic opportunity officer thinks so | Fortune

McKinsey's new AI leadership playbook: flatten teams and move faster

AI can streamline organizational structures by flattening management layers and enhancing decision-making capabilities.

Philosophy

The Leadership Skill That's Quietly Fading in the Age of AI

AI-driven efficiency risks diminishing deep thinking, leading to a loss of original understanding and nuanced insight among leaders.

AI adoption isn't the hard part, it's building employee agency | Fortune

AI empowers non-coders to execute ideas, requiring companies to foster safe, effective environments for employee agency and innovation.

Is the org chart dead in the age of AI? LinkedIn's chief economic opportunity officer thinks so | Fortune

Org charts hinder innovation; companies must embrace worker-led AI experimentation across departments.

more#ai

fromHyperallergic

Nine Lessons on My Path From Engagement to Leadership

Curiosity is foundational in the arts, as demonstrated by the Menil Collection's exhibition, which transformed a gallery into an education room through public programs.

Arts

Startup companies

Leaders share 18 common innovation mistakes

Innovation requires dedicated focus and understanding beyond just new tools or technology.

Healthcare

Dignity as a competitive business model

Healthcare affordability is forcing families to delay care, highlighting the need for dignity-centered care models that prioritize patient respect and community health.

Relationships

fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

The busiest leaders share this surprising weakness

Constant busyness at work deteriorates personal relationships and collaboration, ultimately undermining high performance.

Non-profit organizations

How Dissolving Your Nonprofit Can Strengthen the Sector | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Nonprofit leaders must sometimes choose to dissolve organizations intentionally rather than forcing survival in a weakened state.

I was laid off twice from the same company. The second time was a gut punch but taught me not to take cuts personally.

When the CEO held a virtual town hall in 2020 and said there needed to be layoffs, I knew I would be one of the first to go because I served zero purpose at that point.

Marketing

Agile

Fractional leadership is the future. Here's how to make it work

Fractional executives have become a mainstream strategic solution for companies needing senior-level expertise without full-time commitments.

14 hours ago

Are You Struggling to Keep Up With Change at Work?

Most workers are experiencing multiple significant changes simultaneously, leading to various states of change fatigue.

11 hours ago

Growth Hacks Are Fading. Here's the Smarter Path to Success.

Brand discipline is essential for trust and growth in today's crowded markets, replacing aggressive growth hacks and urgency-driven tactics.

fromeLearning

Online learning

Why Corporate Training Programs Are Essential for Future-Ready Organizations - eLearning

Corporate training programs are essential for organizations to remain competitive, agile, and future-ready in a rapidly changing environment.

Your CEO gives you the ick. Now what?

Emily's perception of her CEO's integrity is compromised after discovering his affair, affecting her confidence in promoting company values.

Mindfulness

How to lead when nobody knows what's coming

CEOs face uncertainty as global trade systems unravel, requiring a shift in mindset to thrive amidst chaos.

#organizational-culture

Why Leaders Often Discover Organizational Problems Too Late

Hidden problems in teams often remain unreported due to a culture that discourages early issue escalation, leading to delayed responses and increased costs.

Why Great Employees Still Fail Inside the Wrong Strategy

Culture drives behavior under pressure, influencing differentiation through shared conviction and adaptive thinking.

Why Leaders Often Discover Organizational Problems Too Late

Hidden problems in teams often remain unreported due to a culture that discourages early issue escalation, leading to delayed responses and increased costs.

more#organizational-culture

Why Great Employees Still Fail Inside the Wrong Strategy

Culture drives behavior under pressure, influencing differentiation through shared conviction and adaptive thinking.

fromInfoQ

How to Handle Trusts and Psychological Safety When Scaling Organizations

Trust must be built team by team; it cannot be replicated as organizations scale.

Tech industry

fromWIRED

OpenAI's Fidji Simo Is Taking Medical Leave Amid an Executive Shake-Up

OpenAI undergoes major reorganization with leadership changes due to health issues affecting key executives.

Liking corporate BS may be a sign you're bad at decision-making, Cornell expert finds | Fortune

Corporate jargon can mislead and impair decision-making, as shown by research on receptivity to corporate bulls-t.

Online learning

fromeLearning Industry

2 days ago

Continuous Learning Cultures: What High Performing Organizations Do Differently

Organizations must adopt a continuous learning culture to keep pace with rapid changes in technology and evolving job roles.

Boards Need to Rethink How They Advise CEOs

Boards need to adapt discussions despite having experienced members, as CEOs struggle to prioritize amid disruption.

Many productivity programs solve the wrong problem. This is what leaders should do instead

Organizations face work design problems rather than productivity issues, leading to temporary solutions that fail to address underlying conflicts in problem-solving approaches.

How to Draw the Line Between AI Insights and Human Decisions

High-performance teams leverage clear ownership and decision velocity to enhance AI-informed decision-making in competitive environments.

Bootstrapping

How to Treat Your Successes Like Renewable Resources

Success can create pressure and lead to misaligned goals for entrepreneurs, making them feel obligated rather than fulfilled.

The 3-Step Talent Audit That Keeps Your Leadership Team Aligned and Performing

Treat talent as capital to enhance team performance and strategic alignment.

HR leaders are drowning in decisions: here's how the best ones are getting ahead | Fortune

Geopolitical uncertainty and economic volatility challenge talent retention while modern workplace demands require skilled workers to innovate with technology.

5 hours ago

On Thin Ice: The Reality of Career Success

Success in careers is influenced by partnerships, timing, and subjective values, not just individual effort.

AI success is a leadership test-and the 100 Best Companies lead the way | Fortune

Leadership is crucial for successful AI adoption; without trust and support, employees remain hesitant despite having access to technology.

2 days ago

No mediocre worker is safe the bar for keeping your job just went up

Companies are replacing underperforming employees with better talent due to constrained hiring budgets and a focus on maximizing performance.

How (and why) to give your team time to think

Teams are optimized for activity over creativity, leading to a lack of innovative breakthroughs.

3 signs your company is using AI incorrectly

Most organizations struggle with AI due to a lack of strategic thinking, not technology issues.

fromSlate Magazine

A New Executive Has Taken On a Common Office Problem. She's Made It So Much Worse.

Fridge management policies imposed by a new manager are causing stress and conflict among employees.

This Is the Type of Leadership You Can't Afford to Ignore

Evidence-based leadership transforms entrepreneurial vision into measurable strategies for sustainable innovation and sound capital allocation.

How Leaders Can Build a High-Agency Culture

Larry Culp became GE's first outsider CEO in 2018, inheriting a crisis with plummeting stock and excessive debt.

fromSilicon Canals

9 things people who command respect at work do that have nothing to do with their title or seniority - Silicon Canals

Respect at work is earned through listening and accountability, not through titles or positions.

fromJohnjwang

Artificial intelligence

Why are executives enamored with AI but ICs aren't?

Executives embrace AI for its non-deterministic nature, while individual contributors remain skeptical due to their focus on deterministic tasks.

#executive-presence

When Executive Presence Backfires

Executive presence is essential for senior leaders, characterized by confidence and decisiveness, influencing career advancement and performance evaluations.

Why strong leaders lose credibility in high-stakes moments

Leaders lose credibility due to weak executive presence, not poor word choice; presence determines how messages are received and interpreted.

When Executive Presence Backfires

Executive presence is essential for senior leaders, characterized by confidence and decisiveness, influencing career advancement and performance evaluations.

Why strong leaders lose credibility in high-stakes moments

Leaders lose credibility due to weak executive presence, not poor word choice; presence determines how messages are received and interpreted.

more#executive-presence

#leadership-development

Business intelligence

Why cutting leadership development now will cost you later

Organizations reducing leadership development during pressure risk operational failures as AI expands role complexity and decision demands on senior leaders.

fromBig Think

Business

The six elements of a successful leadership development system

Business intelligence

Why cutting leadership development now will cost you later

Organizations reducing leadership development during pressure risk operational failures as AI expands role complexity and decision demands on senior leaders.

fromBig Think

more#leadership-development

Business

The six elements of a successful leadership development system

fromSlate Magazine

My New Boss Has Some Unfortunate Corporate Mannerisms. I'm Having an Involuntary Reaction to It.

Corporate-speak can create barriers in communication, leading to feelings of condescension and stress in workplace relationships.

fromBig Think

2 weeks ago

How to build a manager development program from scratch

Darktrace built a scalable manager development program training 75% of global managers across 20 cohorts in under two years using a three-person team and a four-tier curriculum framework.

Why the best employees often carry the heaviest burden

The capability curse leads to increased expectations and reliance on capable individuals, often resulting in a heavier burden for them over time.

One prediction isn't enough - Why CEOs are shifting to wartime planning | Fortune

Scenario planning is essential for CEOs to prepare for unpredictable events and ensure rapid response to multiple potential futures.

#board-governance

What to Do When Your Board Is Meddling in Operational Work

Boards are increasingly adopting operational roles, blurring governance and management boundaries through private equity-style monitoring as economic uncertainty and AI disruption intensify.

Startup companies

The Simple Shift That Keeps Your Board Aligned and Engaged

What to Do When Your Board Is Meddling in Operational Work

Boards are increasingly adopting operational roles, blurring governance and management boundaries through private equity-style monitoring as economic uncertainty and AI disruption intensify.

Startup companies

The Simple Shift That Keeps Your Board Aligned and Engaged

more#board-governance

Online learning

fromeLearning Industry

Time For Leadership To Act: Stop Wasting Training Budgets, Strategic Alignment Is Needed ASAP

Organizations must prioritize strategic learning and adaptability over traditional training budgets to maintain competitive advantage in rapidly evolving technological environments.

fromSecuritymagazine

Succeeding A Legendary Leader

Succeeding a beloved leader in an organization presents unique challenges due to inherited reputations and expectations.

fromInc

CEOs Who Stay Silent Are Losing Trust-and Business

Trust now depends on leaders openly sharing their thinking rather than polished corporate messaging, as AI-generated content has commoditized traditional branding approaches.

#ceo-succession

Business

You've lost the CEO succession race. Here's your multi-million dollar bonus | Fortune

Business

The Benefits-and Challenges-of an Insider CEO

Business

The Questions CEO Candidates Need to Ask

Business

You've lost the CEO succession race. Here's your multi-million dollar bonus | Fortune

Business

The Benefits-and Challenges-of an Insider CEO

Business

The Questions CEO Candidates Need to Ask

more#ceo-succession

fromInfoQ

Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success

Imagine a world where everyone in your team feels valued, heard, and empowered to contribute. Imagine that world where people aren't afraid to challenge the status quo and great ideas emerge from unexpected places. Now imagine that world where toxic behaviors don't just go unchecked, they don't even have room to rise. Wouldn't that be a great world? What happens when leadership tolerates the wrong behaviors? What happens when decision-making is shaped by exclusion, fear, and insecurity?

Social justice

Why hope is not a strategy, and what leaders should do instead

Hope functions as a measurable, trainable organizational asset that fosters agency, pathway thinking, goals, and cohesion to sustain performance and perseverance during uncertainty.

Startup companies

Why the Real Test of Leadership Is What Happens Without You

A business is scalable only when it can run without its founder; succession requires systems and access, not personal trust or family ties.

4 weeks ago

How one leadership advisory firm measures a potential CEO's agility

When you're working on CEO succession, with the clients we serve, there's less of a debate about whether people are qualified. It's much more about: 'Can they scale; can they adapt; can they evolve?' This reflects the fundamental shift in how organizations evaluate leadership potential in uncertain times.

Careers

5 Eye-Opening Lessons I've Learned From the Boardroom

Board members must watch decisions' long-term consequences, prioritizing organizational health over immediate control and resisting efficiency pressures that externalize costs.

The boardroom is opening its doors to add a new member

AI is transforming boardrooms into continuous intelligence hubs, shifting decisions from intuition to evidence-based, AI-driven analyses and long-term predictive governance.

Why 67% of Strategic Plans Fail to Deliver Results

Lack of institutional authority, not execution capability, prevents strategic plans from being implemented; embedded operators with decision-making power drive results.

fromwww.bbc.com

Why are more bosses sharing the top job?

Co-CEO structures are increasingly adopted to split responsibility, reduce burnout, and enable leaders to specialize, with several major firms appointing co-CEOs.

New to the Executive Team? Start Here.

Executive team roles come with high expectations-and often minimal onboarding.

Business