Executive Briefings

In complex environments, the success of a strategy is not just a function of design and execution—it is often a function of timing.

The push to simplify often feels right—until it quietly changes what the system is capable of doing.

Friday night a Kona storm rolled across Maui and knocked out the power. For nearly twenty hours the lights were out. The street outside our condo flooded, and for a while it was impossible to drive...

As we enter March, I’m noticing an unsettling pattern across several leadership teams I’m working with: in many cases, key contributors are already showing early signs of burnout — and we are only...

By now, most leaders have moved beyond annual planning and are back in the gravitational pull of day-to-day execution. Recently, I began working with a senior leader at a major pharmaceutical...

It's the first workday of February, so I wanted to help you get an excellent start. In fact, I would like to help you get an excellent start every day by sharing with you what I do every day. When I...