Sixty percent of CEOs report feeling isolated in their role. When I read that statistic, my first thought was: the other forty percent aren’t being honest. I’ve worked with hundreds of senior executives, and loneliness is not the exception—it’s the architecture of the...
Most executive coaching is too polite. There. I said it. A leader walks in, describes the symptoms, and the coach asks careful questions designed to guide the client toward their own insight. It’s pleasant. It’s professional. And for leaders operating at the very...
When power remains, but consent dissolves I recently read an article on Time that described a situation both disturbing and increasingly familiar. It outlined a presidency that generates global tension on an almost daily basis. A leader who, in the eyes of roughly...
And why that is exactly where its strength lies There is a recurring impulse to frame leadership as something spiritual. The greater the responsibility, the stronger the urge to surround it with concepts such as awareness, purpose, calling, or even enlightenment. In...
Why Management-Level “Leadership” Breaks Down Across Europe and beyond, a new form of local boldness is widely applauded. Media outlets highlight mayors who challenge extremism, reshape cities, and forge international partnerships to address housing shortages or...
