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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Recently, I was honored to be interviewed by Heidi Legg of The Editorial. It gave me the chance to weave together my crisis leadership work at Harvard, my Master’s work on leadership in the context of meta-system scale change (think climate change), and my budding work to build leadership capacity and capability among environmental and
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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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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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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
My recent piece in strategy+business on the power of reframing leadership conversations through a more intentional use of the common conjunction, “and” received a lot of attention. It is the habitual use of such seemingly simple practices that helps differentiate truly effective leaders from the also-rans. “And” is a powerful way to engage and connect.
My final post of 2016 for strategy+business really hit a chord. It focuses on writing a personal manifesto–a highly individual exploration of what motivates you, how you define success, and what drives your fears. Based on an interview with Michael Hess of Core 6 Management Advisors, the post explains how a manifesto can be more
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My latest for O’Reilly Media: “As a leader, your every move is watched and your every word is measured for deeper meaning. That means it is easy to screw up an organization’s culture, even when you have the best of intentions. I recently spoke with the head of a large organization who remarked that he
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I recently delivered my annual talk on crisis meta-leadership at MIT’s business continuity executive education program. As always, it was a great group representing businesses and government agencies from around the globe. One of the participants, Carlos Requena, also writes for El Economista in Mexico and so I’ll let him share his perspective of the
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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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I have long seen the appeal in Servant Leadership. Investing in and valuing people as individuals seems a logical path to developing a powerhouse team in almost any organization. The group of devotees, however, remains limited. New data may change that as I wrote recently in a column for strategy+business: But this soft-sounding method is
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I’m pleased to share the news that my column, “Thinking Like a Leader: Three Big Shifts” made it to #3 on the strategy+business top 10 most-read list for 2015. It’s an honor to be on a list with Herminia Ibarra, Roger Martin, and so many other notables. More important, I’m happy that the article made
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