September 28, 2021
Do your board members have a Board Mindset™? How do you know? And how do you strengthen this set of attributes?
September 16, 2021
Virtuosos distinguish themselves by exemplifying E5: excellence, expertise, experience, enterprise, and ethics. They force people to take them seriously. They don’t raise the bar—they set it for everyone else. They serve as gold standards...
August 31, 2021
Despite the rapidly expanding literature in behavioral economics and the popularity of some of its well-known concepts, it is surprisingly tricky to put conclusions from research into practical use. As the behavioral economic theories suggest, this challenge exists because...
August 18, 2021
The most highly functioning boards have established rigorous and targeted reporting that is not burdensome for management to prepare or for directors to read and comment upon. The executive measure, assess, and report on what matters most.
August 5, 2021
When we understand disruption and the people who intentionally create it, we understand how to design it instead of fearing it.
July 14, 2021
Directors are usually intelligent, successful people capable of stepping into the same decision traps as other people. Yet, some manage to make fewer mistakes than others. So, are some people more “trap resistant” than others?
June 28, 2021
As directors, it is not appropriate for you to prescribe a plan for return to work; that is management’s responsibility. It is incumbent upon you to consider the risks accompanying the return to work, in what may be a different work environment, with different employee expectations than in the past.
June 9, 2021
Research shows that self-awareness—knowing who we are and how others see us—forms the foundation of high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. However, people don’t see themselves quite as clearly as they could. If they have always had a stagnant mindset, they are loathe to explore the disruption that truly knowing themselves might bring.
May 19, 2021
A well-known concept from psychology is the confirmation bias that describes people's tendency to recognize, remember, and value new information that confirms what they already believe. The idea is not difficult to understand, but it is surprisingly challenging to interrupt. Why? Because unconscious biases are more than cognitive processes, they are emotional, making it more challenging to dislodge them.
