You’re It Named Among Top Change Books
Teambuilding.com has named You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most one of the top books for change leaders to read in 2021.
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Leading for Wellness
In a time of rapid change and disruption, a leader’s pursuit of transactional efficiency is the fastest path to irrelevance because it crowds out necessary transformational thinking. A wellness app or program, no matter how well designed, simply adds to the transactional load unless it’s accompanied by a deeper shift in our mental model of work and life.
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Insights on “Leading Up”
One of the more challenging tasks for anyone in an organization is leading “up” to your boss. You have no authority over that person. In fact, they have all of the authority over you. Navigating this power imbalance requires cultivating influence and building a trust-based relationship. When it works, each person can make the greatest
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Prepare Your Crisis Team Now
Crisis teams succeed or fail as teams—this is not an individual sport. Unless teams get used to working together in routine times, they are unlikely to gel when it matters most.
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What Cookies Can Teach You About Your Organization’s Culture
An organization’s culture is dynamic. Leaders need to tend to all of the ingredients to get the outcome they desire.
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Getting to the “Next Amazing” Workplace
From Eric’s recent article for strategy+business: “I can’t wait to get everyone back to the office!” “I’m never going to need an office again!” From these two extremes to a thousand variations in between, leaders are thinking about what work will look like once a critical mass of the population has been vaccinated against COVID-19.
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You’re It Out in Paperback
You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most is now out in paperback and available at your favorite bookseller.
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New Book Now on Pre-Sale
I’m excited that my next book is available for pre-order. Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most: You’re It distills 15 years of practice and research on leading in high stakes, high pressure situations into a pragmatic framework with field-tested tools. Thanks to co-authors Leonard Marcus Joseph M. Henderson and Barry Dorn for
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Transformation Article is Finalist for Award
Woo-hoo! I am pleased that this article about the dramatic turnaround at NYU Langone Medical Center that I co-authored with Doug Wilson and Nathaniel Foote is a finalist for a prestigious the American Society of Business Publication Editors Azbee Awards of Excellence. Among the lessons is that clear, transparent metrics and deep humanity can turn
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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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Why Resilience and Well-Being Matter in Your Organization
It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Mabbly founder Adam Fridman for a recent Inc. article on the relevance of well-being for organizations. My contribution was on resilience and the need to keep people focused on a positive future even in the face of adversity. Resilience is about the ability to bounce forward. When
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