Leadership & Culture
Blog The trust deficit is bigger than the budget deficit
Rothbard said all taxation is theft. Set that aside, and the case against these taxes gets stronger, not weaker.
Blog Satya Nadella and the cultural transformation of Microsoft
By 2012, Microsoft's stock price had been essentially flat for a decade.
Blog Disney and the "Don't Say Gay" bill
Chapek had spent decades inside Disney, most recently running its theme parks and consumer products division
Blog Kodak, Blockbuster, and the leaders who saw it coming
In both cases, the leaders saw the disruption coming and chose not to act.
Blog Howard Schultz and the Starbucks crisis of 2008
When Howard Schultz returned as CEO of Starbucks on January 8, 2008, the company he had built was unrecognizable.
Blog The discipline of not knowing
The event is the event. What destroys us is the story we attach to it.
Blog Stop doing what people don't want done
We promote the leader who performs caring and punish the one who actually cares.
Blog Learning to respond
Emotions are contagious, and they spread most readily from the most powerful person in the room.
Blog When knowing isn't doing: Strategic delay and the cost of inertia
IBM knew what it needed to do at critical junctures, but delayed doing so.
Blog The trigger you won't pull
We do these things not because we're stupid but because we're human.
Blog Elon Musk and the theology of attention
Musk's attention reveals his values with unmistakable clarity.