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A similar dynamic surfaced during a recent leadership development session I conducted for health care administrators.
Nearly half the respondents said they spend more time managing and directing artificial intelligence than doing the work itself.
Three questions tell me whether to take on something outside my day job. Why this? Why now? Why me?
Manufacturing isn’t just an industry in Indiana.
Change becomes painful when not everyone agrees that the current way of operating can be improved or when they are unclear about the need.
Here’s a question most high-performing people have never seriously asked themselves: What is your hourly rate?
A strategy for executing a vision should not be held in the hands of a single individual.
The employees involved in the denial did not approach the situation with basic empathy or human kindness.
For centuries, humans have applied the way we work with existing media to the shiny new medium.
When Randy and I started One Click, we didn’t have a strategy around venture capital.
When people feel heard, their resistance softens. This is the paradox of influence. The fastest way to persuade someone is often trying to understand them.
Before you evaluate your data, I’d encourage you to do something deceptively simple: Write down your biggest business problems and opportunities.
We are entering an era of disruption driven by artificial intelligence and modern technology that is exponential in scale to anything we have ever experienced.
This data points to a massive disconnect between the promise of AI and its current reality.
Somewhere along the way, we lost the meaning — and many leaders now use coach to describe behavior that does the opposite of development.
Because there is never enough time to do everything.
Driving effective change starts with transparency.
Thinking about the art and beauty of liqueur helped me think about something I was “mulling” over at work.
Companies might lack succession plans for a variety of reasons.
