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On Leadership: How to Move Fast Without Breaking Your Business

Disruption is no longer a distant threat. It is here, transforming industries faster than most leaders can adapt. For the MBA class I teach on leading through disruption, I recently spoke with a top executive …

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On Leadership: Leading through change: Why success depends on the ‘how,’ not just the ‘what’

Everyone said they wanted change. Our outdated CRM had been the office punchline for years. It took 12 clicks to do what should have taken one. So when, as managing director of the private client …

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On Leadership: No perfect moment: Starting and sustaining organizational change

Earlier in my career, I was hired to lead a turnaround. From day one it was clear the organization needed change. The board had one set of ideas, the leadership team another and the staff …

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On Leadership: Balancing adaptability and discipline when the future is uncertain

In recent months, I have been interviewed several times about the impact of tariff increases. In preparing for those conversations, I turned to business leaders across industries. Almost unanimously, they described the challenge of operating …

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On Leadership: Maybe hope really is a strategy

“Hope is not a strategy.” In business school, we heard it endlessly. The phrase has been variously attributed to Vince Lombardi, Rudy Giuliani and countless military briefings where anyone daring to “hope” got sent back …

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On Leadership: Walking the Whiterock Ultra, year two

Last year, I wrote about participating in the Whiterock Ultra. Rather than running the full distance, I chose to walk a partial race, completing 13 miles, a half-marathon. I did it in memory of my …

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On Leadership: Strategic career advancement in a changing world

When I started out in the working world, the path to advancement felt linear. You got some education or training, joined a company, did good work, and waited for a promotion or advancement. For the …

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On Leadership: The AI transformation: Are you leading or lagging?

Over the past week, I had candid conversations with three CEOs in different industries – insurance, agriculture and marketing – each at a different stage of AI adoption, yet all aligned on one key point: …

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On Leadership: When life comes to work: Managing personal stress as a leader

This is part of an ongoing series on mental health and leadership.

For nearly five years, I served as the primary caregiver for my beloved elderly aunt, who had dementia. I relocated her across the …

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Guest column: The power of ‘We’: Honoring the past, shaping the future

Do you ever think about telling someone thank you and then forget to do so? Perhaps you intend to write a note of thanks but then get busy with life and you later think the …