#leadership

#leadership

There is a lot of expectation on a wonderful goalkeeper who is one of the best in world football. There was talk that this might be City looking beyond Pep Guardiola, but the save he made from Bryan Mbeumo was who he is - a world-class save to keep United at nil and he just gets up like 'that's what my job is'.

Leadership is not a straight line or a standard model; there are countless paths to the top. From Silicon Valley builders like Reed Hastings to steady hands like Warren Buffett, who had already led Berkshire Hathaway for decades before Netflix mailed its first DVD, the common thread is not a blueprint, but an ability to draw the best out of people.

One of the simplest ways to strengthen your leadership is to ask better questions. They can open up information you'd otherwise miss, build trust, and even make you more persuasive. But most of us don't ask enough; and when we do, we don't always ask them in the most effective way. In this IdeaCast episode from 2018, host Sarah Green Carmichael talks with Harvard Business School professors Leslie John and Alison Wood Brooks.

For years, I had been teaching people about radical acceptance - not rejecting pain, but recognising pain as a part of reality right now, and learning how to live with it. Even though I initially questioned "why me?" I immediately shifted to "what now?" Cancer was happening , and it was one of the challenges I was going to have to deal with. I was going to get through this journey coming from a place of peace and gratitude, rather than fear.

"I'm not sure how much more of this I can take," said my client, Amanda, during our regular check-in, her voice cracking. For months she'd been the face of a multi-year digital transformation inside her company, rallying teams, making tough calls, and absorbing the constant blowback that comes with shaking up entrenched systems. She believed deeply in the vision because she'd fought hard for and defended it along the way.

Today's leaders face a paradox: the incredible speed of change in the workplace, alongside a deep human need for connection, which requires courage and vulnerability. Brown explained that we can choose to be on "team technology" or "team human," but "the future will belong to those of us who can straddle the paradox of humanity and technology." Both are needed, she affirmed.

Let's be real-it's not easy. Scaling a manufacturing company is messy, unpredictable, and often brutal. My job as CEO is not to hide the chaos, it's to cut through it and get to the finish line. We've built systems, habits, and a culture that make the hard things manageable. From the outside that might look like ease. But every single day there is grit.

The originator of this concept, global humanitarian and spiritual leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, recently spoke at Deakin University's Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, exploring the theme of Absolute Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence and the nature of our innate, embedded intelligence. The key factor is that, unlike artificial intelligence, Absolute Intelligence becomes accessible when your mind is calm and settled. It's a deeper intelligence that allows you to see more possibilities and make better decisions by tapping into your intuitive abilities.

Hello from California! This week I'm in the Bay Area participating in a leadership conference organized by Women Execs on Boards, an off-shoot of Harvard Business School's Women on Boards, after spending the weekend at the Omega Institute in upstate New York. (I'm gathering lots of ideas for the next edition of my book Law, Leadership, and Pipelines to Power, co-authored with Hannah Johnson, the new dean of Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School.)

Are you experiencing a roadblock in your leadership path? On this season of Coaching Real Leaders, executive coach Muriel Wilkins works through issues like imposter syndrome, whether you really want to be CEO, and how to receive - and take action on - tough feedback. She guides leaders through what's holding them back, their options for moving forward, and truly defining what they want in their careers. Listen to the latest season of Coaching Real Leaders starting September 22.

Effective leadership goes beyond managing tasks; it's about nurturing people. Strong leaders guide their teams through every stage of growth, turning individuals into a balanced unit. They foster trust, enable collaboration, promote clarity, and create a culture where continuous growth is not just encouraged but expected. In this article, you will learn about the role of leadership in team development and highlight the key traits that make leaders truly effective.

A disproportionate amount of your success comes from your effort in the last 5%. Let's use fitness examples and then bring it back to work and life. Picture doing a plank. If you're feeling type A, do one after reading this. When you get to the point where you are ready to drop, say to yourself, "Just five more seconds." Count out loud, and you can do it.

You can't fake experience.

"before I stepped foot on an airplane."

Cory B. George has never been afraid of risk. Whether at the card table or in the boardroom, he sees decision-making as a mix of strategy, timing, and instinct. "Poker taught me patience," he says. "You don't win every hand, but you learn to stay calm, read the situation, and wait for the right move." That same mindset shaped his career.

Try to see how your work fits into your team, how your team fits into the business unit (or division or pillar or whatever your company calls it), and finally, how that works for the company, Rey said. Understand why sometimes we need to compromise on some solutions even though we don't want to. Having that mindset will make you think like a leader, and will take you faster to a leadership position,

In an industry where men dominate, Dolly owned her narrative, writing her own songs, transcending genres, and fiercely protecting the privacy of her personal life in an era where everything was on display (Parton & Oermann, 2020). Refusing to relent, she famously turned down Elvis Presley's offer to record "I Will Always Love You," because he demanded partial songwriting rights (Scott, 2020), a bold refusal with a big payoff when, years later, Whitney Houston recorded the track and ran away with a Grammy.

After earning an MBA from Wharton and a law degree from Harvard, Fogel worked in investment banking at Kidder, Peabody & Co. He told Business Insider that when the firm merged with Paine Webber, many bankers were cut. What struck him, though, was that some of his colleagues were retained when he wasn't - a detail he said shaped how he viewed the situation.

This is often difficult for managers to comprehend. The fact that you are in the room or on a Zoom call with your subordinates has a significant impact on everyone present. Everyone behaves differently when the boss is around. Everyone. And you, as a boss, need to realize this. There are two things to realize here. Firstly, when you are present, people will change who they are and what they say. Secondly, you should consider that fact when deciding whether to be in the room.

All eyes were on the Patriots' offense in the season-opening game against the Raiders on Sunday, with hopes that we would see the start of the second-year jump of Drake Maye now that an upgraded group finally surrounds him. From the offensive line to the receiving corps, the excitement was palpable for the start of the Mike Vrabel era, until it became apparent they wouldn't live up to the hype this week.

New teammates are swirling around him. He is not calm, however. He is All-Pro Fred, and that means he is hollering, hustling, and huddling up with intensity. "He's still the one out there chirping and yelling and screaming and getting everybody pumped up," defensive coordinator Robert Saleh said. "So, he hasn't changed in that regard. The game hasn't jaded him, if that makes sense."

Cristiano Ronaldo is a key figure for Portugal and scored twice as they opened their World Cup qualifying campaign with a 5-0 victory over Armenia on Saturday. Those goals took his tally up to 942 goals for club and country in his career, with 140 of those coming for Portugal.

Since launching Flexport in 2013, Ryan Petersen has helped more than 10,000 companies move over $175 billion worth of goods worldwide, raising $2.3 billion and redefining how supply chains are managed in a volatile, tech-driven era. After stepping down as CEO in 2022, he returned less than a year later to steady the ship and chart its next phase of growth.

That guy's the heart and soul of this team,

"She's a true pleasure to coach," San Pedro flag coach Victor Tuberosi said. "Her IQ is what makes her different than others. As a coach, you can call the play, but what impresses me most is her decision-making."

It doesn't influence my thinking,

Taoiseach has bypassed some of his party's big vote-getters and turned to Jim Gavin, who has never run for office or shown any interest in politics "Uno duce, una voce... in other words, there will be no more nibbling at my leader's bum" - PJ Mara, press adviser to Fianna Fáil leader, Charles J Haughey, February 1985. Fianna Fáil TDs are finding out that Micheál Martin learnt the dark arts of leadership all too well from his mentor and benefactor, Charlie Haughey.

On the morning after Labor Day, Anna Wintour, who has been the editor-in-chief of American Vogue for the past thirty-seven years, gathered her staff and, with a sense of occasion and pride, handed over the job to a sharp, funny, and independent-minded protégé named Chloe Malle. Not that Wintour was retiring: she remains the editorial director of all the Vogue editions throughout the world—there are twenty-eight of them—and the chief content officer of Condé Nast, which owns both Vogue and The New Yorker.

Jonathan Toews' return to the NHL could go down as one of the most anticipated returns to the league for a long time, and as the multi-time Cup-winning champ opens a new chapter in Winnipeg, what would constitute a successful return for Toews, and how big of an impact can he really have for a cup hungry Winnipeg this season?

In times of crisis, employees pay great attention to what their leader is like. It is in these moments that trust shifts from a "soft value" to a strategic asset that directly affects motivation, retention and even financial results. Companies with high levels of trust outperform competitors in efficiency by up to 400%, and 93% of business leaders believe that trust directly impacts financial performance.

When I was a junior medical student, I was offered the chance to watch a critical, lifesaving procedure in a cardiac catheterization lab. The patient, a middle aged man, had a heart attack that morning, and the cardiology team had rushed him to the cath lab to try to place a stent and save his life. Medical teams typically rely on strict hierarchies to function efficiently under pressure, and I was at the bottom of the hierarchy that day.

The battle for the corner office may be more competitive than ever before-with promotions today seeming few and far between; in fact, some 75% of workers leave jobs before ever being promoted, according to ADP. However, playing the long game also has its benefits-and Philipp Navratil is the latest example of that. The 49-year-old was just named the CEO of Nestlé, the multinational food and drink conglomerate consisting of brands like Nespresso, KitKat, and Cheerios, after spending his entire career climbing the same ladder. Navratil first joined Nestlé as an internal auditor in 2001, fresh out of obtaining his MBA from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.