Attracted to problems
12.23.2022 – Sometimes it’s hard to understand what activities and traits distinguish a leader from a follower. This is especially true because the very word “leader” is used today to describe someone who runs a country and also someone who volunteers to run a bake sale.
Ways To Utilize Premium Thinking And Improve Your Leadership
10.13.2021 – In business, there are leaders who instruct and leaders who teach; there are those who give directives and those who inspire — those who stay at the top and those who participate.
How to nurture a digital workforce
5.27.2021 – Adopting new technology is just one part of becoming a digitally savvy organization. Leaders need to make sure employees are on board, too.
5 insights on digital leadership from MIT Sloan Management Review
4.5.2021 – The post-pandemic world will reward leaders who can navigate a complex landscape of digital services to make decisions, monitor supply chains, and encourage innovation.
The one skill every CIO needs for better board conversations
March 1, 2021 // Every board of directors has at least one. That board member who knows how to ask the best questions—the penetrating, insightful, thoughtful kind that make everyone in the room stop, think, and reconsider.
Actionable Steps For Accelerating D&I Initiatives In 2021
February 18, 2021 // Determined to move the needle on your diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives this year? Maybe it’s time to reframe the questions driving your D&I efforts.
Why Questioning Is The Ultimate Learning Skill
December 29, 2020 // “My mother made me a scientist,” recalled physicist Isidor Rabi, Nobel Prize laureate. “‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’”
You too can be a great innovator, if you just learn to work with this
November 28, 2020 // Madam C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove, was America’s first female self-made millionaire. She pioneered a line of haircare and beauty products for people of color early in the 20th century, and the recent Netflix series Self Made details the story of this talented innovator and the challenges she overcame on the […]
Northern Ireland’s manufacturers ‘fear for the future’
June 12, 2020 // ONE in eight manufacturers in Northern Ireland fear they won’t survive until the end of this year, a survey of the industry has found. Despite the widespread use of furloughing, three out of five firms are currently anticipating redundancies, with more than half likely to shed up to a third of […]
Zooming Before It Was Cool
April 17, 2020 // I wrote in my most recent column that the COVID-19 crisis was forcing long-gestating changes to our industry to come into being. I focused mostly on the damage these changes would wreak on firms that have failed to prepare for the future. But it won’t be all gloom and doom once this […]