Formula One teams understand something that has fascinated me for years. The fastest cars in the world still stop. Not because they’re losing. Not because they’re broken. Not because the driver has given up. They stop because performance requires periodic...
At its core, leadership is influence. And influence is shaped by attention. What we notice, what we miss, where we place our focus, and how long we stay with the right part of a system all shape our ability to lead. This is true when we are trying to lead ourselves,...
Over the past decade, terms like cognitive bias and implicit bias have entered everyday conversation. We know now that the brain is an efficiency machine—its job is to take what it currently “knows,” filter new information through that lens, and make decisions as...
In the mid-1990s, organizational theorists Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton coined a phrase that still echoes today: the knowing–doing gap. They observed something painfully simple yet profoundly true—most of us already know far more than we consistently do. The...
Most people try to improve performance by stacking tactics—visualization, positive self-talk, problem solving. Helpful? Sure. But the biggest jumps I see in senior leaders, managers, and individual contributors don’t come from more tactics. They come from a shift in...
(Reflections from the International Leadership Association Global Conference in Prague) Every once in a while, life gifts you a conversation that lingers… And what began as a 45-minute meeting with a priest at the International Leadership Association Global...
