Is a New CEO the Answer for Starbucks?
No individual leader has all the answers. Here are five strategies for a new leader to cultivate a community of leaders.
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Eric Appears at TEDx Walden
Eric McNulty speaks on the power of collaborative action to address complex problems at TEDx Walden Pond in November 2023.
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Building Communities of Leading
As organizations and communities face ever-more complex challenges, how we think about leading needs to change as well.
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Rethinking the Future of Humanitarian Efforts
I enjoyed moderating the opening session of the Emergency Show at the 2021 World Humanitarian Forum. Panelists Craig Fugate, Rupert Douglas-Bate, Paolo Garonna, and I explored the future of humanitarian response and how thinking needs to change. A clear theme was moving beyond the traditional donor country/recipient country relationship that fosters elitism. Instead, there were
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The Leadership Brain
The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, where I research and teach, is creating short video modules based on our curriculum. I am pleased that I was asked to take on the inaugural segment on the leaders brain. In this clip, I discuss the ways that cognitive biases shape one’s perceptions and decisions–sometimes in dramatic
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Leading Through Principles Makes Top Read List
I am pleased that my piece for strategy+business on leading through principles made the 2017 “most read” list. With more than 20,000 views, the article certainly resonated with many people. And that is the more important point–how moving from rules to principles engages and empowers an organization to more nimbly solve problems, seize opportunities, and
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Back at MIT
It was a great pleasure to return to MIT this week to speak at the Business Continuity and Crisis Planning executive education course. It’s my fourth consecutive year. I always enjoy engaging on meta-leadership with a group that walks the talk on the front lines. This year, about 40% of the group came from outside
Discussing ARTful Leadership at AESE Lisbon
I recently had the privilege to deliver a keynote presentation to the alumni of the AESE Business School in Lisbon, Portugal. The talk came in the wake of the Brexit vote and violence in numerous locations around the world so the topic of “leading in turbulent times” was on everyone’s minds. We discussed ARTful leadership–building
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