The most expensive decisions I see are not made under pressure. They are made by capable people with nothing left worth doing. This runs against everything boards are trained to watch for. Risk committees model stress. Succession plans anticipate collapse. Everyone...
A coach who is still necessary after two years has failed. I say that to every board that hires me, usually in the first conversation, and it is not modesty. It is the design specification. The deliverable of this work is not the sessions; it is the handover. The...
Most executive coaching fails because it starts with tools. A model on a slide, a personality test, a workbook of techniques — addition, addition, addition, stacked on top of a leader who has never once been shown an accurate picture of himself. The industry sells...
“Just be yourself” became a billion-dollar instruction. Walk through any leadership conference and count the keynotes on authenticity. Watch the CEO who rehearses his “spontaneous” vulnerability story three times with his communications team...
The offsite worked. For a weekend, at least. The speaker was electric, the flip charts were full, the commitments were sincere. And by Thursday the glow was gone — the calendar reasserted itself, the inbox flooded back, and the executive who swore on Friday to listen...
Every senior leader knows the moment. The data is incomplete and will stay incomplete. The two proposals left on the table differ more in adjectives than in outcomes. Legal has flagged both. The room has stopped debating and started watching — because the only thing...
