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School rankings and other forms of measurement are intended to provide useful information to potential students and their families. But as the schools…
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January 2023

The state of customer service across most of the economy is dreadful. A recent delightful experience at Patagonia proves that it doesn’t have to be that…
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Ideas – Thought Sparks Rebuilding Ukraine – huge risks, but potentially huge opportunities. Remembering the extraordinary Frances Hesselbein. How can…
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People have been predicting the end of Hollywood as we know it for a long time. Talking pictures were first dismissed as a novelty, then eventually…
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Image credit: https://elearningindustry.com/reasons-why-talent-development-is-important Happy New Year! Ram Charan and I co-authored an article just out…
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December 2022

I’ve been asked to offer a public lecture for Ukraine by the DTEK Academy, the learning and development arm of one of the country’s leading energy…
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When leadership coach and major award winner Marshall Goldsmith describes you as the greatest leader he has ever met, that’s saying something. Frances…
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As the world begins to open up and I’m back on the speaking circuit, a question I get asked again and again is how one can tell when a once-robust…
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November 2022

When a major inflection point passes through, institutions and the environment take a long time to catch up. But when they do, the consequences can be…
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Gradually, then suddenly. That’s the line that I borrowed from Ernest Hemingway to describe the progress of strategic inflection points. They brew along…
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Big flashy billion-dollar investments. Leaders optimistically pronouncing totally unrealistic launch dates. Geeky engineers becoming the darlings of the…
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