Great Leaders Know Which Emotions Their Feedback Will Trigger
HBR research shows skilled leaders anticipate the emotional impact of feedback before they deliver it.
Employers pushed staff to use AI more. That has backfired
Pushing employees to adopt AI without support is backfiring, damaging morale and productivity.
This habit leads to burnout. Are you at risk?
A common workplace habit is quietly accelerating burnout risk across leadership teams.
Chipotle’s COO takes employees to dinner every week to spot his next leaders—here are the 4 traits he’s seeking
Chipotle's COO uses weekly team dinners to identify leadership potential through four observable traits.
The ‘Job-Hugging’ Trend Is Cracking: Why Half of Employees Are Now Looking to Leave
New data shows half of employees are now actively job searching, reversing the post-pandemic stay-put trend.
Four lessons in handling uncertainty from an ER doc turned CEO
An ER physician turned CEO shares four tested frameworks for leading teams through high-stakes uncertainty.
Protect Focus to Build Better Teams
HBR argues protecting team focus time is a core leadership habit that builds higher performance.
Authenticity and Transparency Are Not the Same Thing. Here’s Why Great Leaders Split Them
Executives who conflate authenticity with radical transparency risk eroding trust and strategic credibility.
Brené Brown warns American workers are not neurologically wired for this level of rapid change and instability: ‘People are not okay’
Brené Brown warns employee instability tolerance has reached a neurological breaking point for leaders to address.
Air Canada Picks Outsider as Next CEO to Rebuild Trust After Video Fallout
Air Canada's choice of an outside CEO after a trust crisis signals how boards use leadership hires to signal accountability.
Leadership’s Blind Spot in the Age of AI
MIT Sloan identifies what senior leaders are systematically missing about AI's organizational implications.
The operating model advantage: Why AI winners are rewiring their organizations
McKinsey finds AI winners are rewiring operating models, not just deploying tools — a strategic framing shift for executives.
my employee keeps reminding me she used to be the boss
Employee who was previously in charge keeps asserting former authority, testing a manager's credibility.
The Mind-Bending Company That Gets a Million Job Applications—and Rejects 99.9%
A company receiving one million applications while accepting 0.1 percent reveals new dynamics in elite talent filtering.
AI Upskilling at Scale: Bank of America’s Bernard Hampton
Bank of America's head of HR details how large-scale AI upskilling is being executed in practice.
Employees are staying silent about the issues HR most needs to hear
Employees are withholding critical feedback from HR, leaving leaders blind to their most pressing problems.
What’s causing the widening trust gap between employees and employers?
New data identifies key drivers behind the widening trust gap between employees and employers.
I need to give my employees more positive feedback
A manager's candid struggle with giving positive feedback surfaces a common leadership gap worth examining.
HR Monitor 2026: A turning point for the people function
McKinsey's 2026 HR data identifies a turning point in how people functions must evolve to stay relevant.
‘Can a machine do this job?’ is the wrong question
Reframing AI job displacement away from task replacement opens more useful strategic conversations for leaders.