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Leadership in a VUCAH world—where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and hyperconnectivity define the landscape—is often reactive. For many leaders, the default mode is survival: reacting...
SMB leaders are no strangers to high-stakes environments. But in a VUCAH world—where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and hyperconnectivity are the norm—the traditional tools of leaders...
Consultants love their frameworks, their PowerPoints, and their playbooks. They parachute into your business, spend a few days with your team, and leave you with a shiny report that looks great on you...
All wars are tragedies, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a particularly brutal act of aggression that has yielded terrible human suffering, yet wars have always offered plenty of models for leaders...
In February 2020 – two years ago last month – I wrote a column for Forbes entitled “Stop Lying To Yourself About The Coronavirus.” The United States had just reported its 35th known case of Covid-19 t...
By now, most leaders – or, at least, most thinking leaders – are aware of the many cognitive biases and heuristics that we all fall victim to, no matter how smart we are, no matter how well educated w...
When confronted with a crisis like the present pandemic, Dave Snowden says there are four things leaders need to do: assess, adapt, exapt, and transcend.
Snowden is worth listening to. He is one of t...
I know that political observers are calling the UN’s COP26 climate summit a success, at least judged by the modest yardstick of the progress made by the world’s governments in recent years. However, w...
Like most Americans, I remember exactly where I was twenty years ago. It was just after 7 a.m. in California when a friend woke me up with a phone call, urgently insisting that I turn on my television...
When I was studying at the U.S. Army’s red teaming school at Fort Leavenworth back in 2015, I was introduced to a powerful concept called “My 15 Percent.”
The idea is simple: Whether you are a general ...
As leaders struggle to navigate today’s complex and rapidly changing world, many of them are finding that the tactics and behaviors that served them well in the past are less effective when dealing wi...
Kabul has fallen, and today is a dark day for America – and an even darker day for Afghanistan. But the speed of the Taliban’s advance, while stunning, was hardly surprising.
I’m no expert, but in co...
