Jack McGuinness
When A CEO’s ‘Position Authority’ Gets In The Way
Being top dog is part of the job—but authoritarian overload can clamp down on curiosity, creativity and innovation.
Is Your Team Up To The Task?
Some CEOs are discovering that their executives lack the capabilities to be effective leaders during a crisis. A checklist of what to look for in your top people.
4 COVID-19 Leadership Lessons
The best leaders are facing this crisis by reinforcing accountability in a positive manner, engaging their teams with foresight, putting their people first with their actions and being decisive.
Leading In A Crisis: Embrace The Uncertainty
The best leaders will use these five strategies for leaning into the current crisis, managing fear, and leading through the unknown.
The Dangers of Loose Expectations
If you want great results, assuming your team understands the outcomes you’re looking for is the best way not to get them.
Crisis Leadership Is Not Sustainable
The challenge is to move beyond "brute force leadership" and build a team that utilizes positive characteristics of leading in a crisis—but sets aside the dysfunction.
Fear Is A Bad Leadership Team Principle
The CEO’s most important job is to model behaviors that squash fear, such as minimizing emotional outbursts, encouraging teammates to challenge him or her, and fostering debate.
Four Features That Define Great Leadership Teams
Great leadership teams can accelerate performance, but they can also get in their own way and hold back progress. The following characteristics, while somewhat intangible and hard to measure, lead organizations to thrive.
Great Leadership Teams Move Beyond Assumptions
Here are three actions that leadership teams and team members can take to strengthen the team’s ability to engage in productive dialogue and move its most important issues forward.
A Systems View of Leadership Team Effectivenes
While it is not easy to build a leadership team that functions on all cylinders, the benefits can be dramatic for the team and, more importantly, for the organization it serves.
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In Poll, Majority of CEOs Say Hybrid Work Is Here to Stay for 2022. Full Virtual? Not so Much
Almost all the CEOs we surveyed in May say they will work in at least partially hybrid mode for the rest of the year—versus just 7 percent who said they'd be fully remote.