Lessons from the C-Suite

Gratitude as an act of leadership. Seems like a skill worth practicing.

Great executives care deeply about listening, both inside and outside their organization. But it can become information overload. Here's how to filter out the noise.

A strong CEO can cause the executive team to contort themselves to fit the styles and preferences of the CEO, often to the detriment of the team. So how do you balance the two?

The secret to balancing accountability and trust at the executive level begins with one key question.

When it comes to team effectiveness, decision-making is a form of currency. As CEO, be cautious not to hoard it.

A lot of C-suites are packed with amazing individual executives, yet as a team, they struggle to get traction. The lack of cohesive teamwork comes at a high cost to company performance.

Every organization has the opportunity to connect to a higher purpose. But they often fail to do so because their leaders struggle to connect their people to that larger reason for existing.

Never underestimate the power of being asked to do just one thing and here is why.

There is a fundamental reframing of the expectations of the job required when executives reach the c-suite.

We had an idea that CEOs were thirsty for support, but new research showed that number was even larger than we expected.

This week I watched as a CEO "lost" one of his highest-potential executives. Why? A crucial mistake in her executive development plan.

I’d like to propose a toast to the holiday spirit, but maybe not the one you’re thinking of.

One of the biggest issues we've heard from executives, both before and during the pandemic: “I still don’t have time to think.”

Although recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics may not technically show a labor shortage most employers tell a different story.

Of all the rooms in the world, the corporate boardroom might be the one where it’s most difficult to relax. Why? Boards must simultaneously pursue two competing objectives: scrutiny and authenticity.

CEOs feel best about their teams in the first 6 months of their tenure, after which ratings decline year after year across the first five years at the helm.

As most executives handled the initial crisis of the pandemic well, we’re now seeing the delayed response of what has already been happening across lower levels, executive exodus.

In three separate conversations with board directors, together representing eight different companies, a common theme emerged: There is a crisis in the C-suite.