Peernovation escribes the collaborative innovation that happens when people are encouraged to share their insights and expertise in a...

In Part 2 of my latest CEOWORLD magazine article, The Accountability Paradox and the Power of Psychological Safety, I write about what Amy Edmondson taught me (all of us) about the relationship between psychological safety and accountability. While finetuning the fundamentals of Peernovation, I created an illustration called Inside the Five Factors, which adds productivity to the mix. I simply note that productivity (the quality and quantity of the outputs and outcomes) s

Last week, I led an exercise with key executives at an international company based in San Diego. I asked each participant to take a...

After reading Vipin Gupta’s article, titled “ How I Built a Personal Board of Directors with GenAI ” (MIT Sloan Management Review,...

If you could offer your stakeholders a peek behind the curtain and show them what you do and have them see the love and care that your...

About three years ago, a CEO Forum member challenged me to create a learning and development environment for 26 business unit leaders who...

One of my favorite examples of a leader galvanizing a team involves UCONN Women’s Basketball head coach Geno Auriemma. One year, early in...

Peer advisory groups, forums, mastermind groups, communities of practice, employee resource groups (ERGs), peer learning groups, peer...

Most people skip reading the foreword of a nonfiction book. This conclusion is not based on extensive research, but rather on a simple...

These slippers require a bit of unpacking. As a CEO, how many times along your journey to Oz, if you will, were you told to implement a...

Embarking on something new for your company is an aspirational exercise. You imagine that if you proactively adopt a new method or...

Where and how we grew up plays an enormous role in how we see the world. If you grew up in a poor neighborhood, for example, your...