BIG IDEA: The past year forced many of us to rethink our fundamental beliefs about work, leadership, and culture. In the complicated year that was 2021, plenty of well-worn wisdom and familiar lines about what it takes to be an effective leader faced a reckoning. Look on the bright side? Well, not always. Buck up and be resilient? It’s not that […]
BIG IDEA: Today, more than ever, the world demands that leaders act with purpose and integrity. “I think it’s harder to be a leader than it used to be,” Rob Chesnut, the former Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb and the author of Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution, told us on our Lead
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BIG IDEA: My team and I are reflecting on what we’ve accomplished this year. I’ve written many times about the importance of reflection for leaders. I encourage leaders to take time out of their schedule regularly to check in and reflect on their progress, and the end of the year is a natural time to
BIG IDEA: The end of the year is a natural time to pause and reflect on your progress as a leader. I’ve always encouraged leaders to regularly take time out of their schedules to reflect on their progress. This kind of reflection is invaluable for leaders. It’s so easy to get caught up in the
BIG IDEA: There’s more to building a strong network than simple networking. Most leaders make three major mistakes when thinking about relationships and their career. First, they tend to think about relationships with peers and colleagues in a transactional way: I need this from you. I can help you with that. Second, they neglect relationships outside
The hard work of leadership is a lot easier when you’re surrounded by accountable leaders. We are so excited to launch our Accountable Leaders Community! Click here to learn more about it and become a member. BIG IDEA: Isolation and loneliness are huge problems for leaders today. Right before the pandemic upended all our lives, Cigna
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BIG IDEA: Effective collaboration comes down to culture. There’s one simple question that can reveal a whole lot about an organization’s culture: How is asking for help seen in this organization? Take some time to reflect on this question, and I think you’ll see why it’s so revealing. Is asking for help seen as a
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BIG IDEA: We need to do more than cooperate—we need true collaboration to lead us into the future. Imagine you’re hosting a potluck dinner. Everyone will bring a dish that they know how to make well and that they think people will like, right? But as Frances Valintine, the founder of the Tech Futures Lab,
BIG IDEA: Remote collaboration is possible. But your employees need the right tools to get it done. Despite all the gloom-and-doom talk about how we must return to the office to collaborate effectively and connect with our colleagues, many organizations have found ways to get collaborative work done in an all-remote environment. For example, one
BIG IDEA: As we move into a hybrid world of work, collaboration is on everyone’s minds. A massive new study of remote work at Microsoft found that, during the pandemic, employees talked to their teammates more. Those relationships deepened. But people talked less to those outside their immediate teams. Essentially, the silos dividing different parts
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