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KPMG’s crisis exposes a governance blind spot: legal investigations can establish what happened, but boards need a different review to understand why it happened and how trust and reputation can be rebuilt.
KPMG’s investigations had sweeping powers. So why did they fail? Read More »
Five years away. AI has entered clinical development. Now he must decide what to trust and what he can defend.
The AI Adoption Problem CEOs Are Misdiagnosing Read More »
Most conversations about sustainability start with responsibility. Reduce your footprint. Do less harm. Make better choices. I understand the impulse. But after building a tequila brand from the ground up in Mexico, I’ve come to see sustainability through a completely different lens. The most powerful environmental solutions I’ve encountered didn’t come from a desire to
I Built a Tequila Brand. Then I Turned Its Waste Into a Business. Read More »
2025 ended with a financial and legal wakeup call for CEOs Few CEOs know much about their company’s healthcare plans. The oldest among us are on Medicare (which doesn’t mean being old these days), many have concierge doctors, and few worry much about their own deductibles or co-pays. For many chief executives, healthcare is a
The Great Healthcare Reset Read More »
Most companies today are over-optimizing for efficiency at the cost of cohesion—and the impact often isn’t visible until performance begins to degrade. For the past decade, we’ve been told that work is becoming more efficient, more distributed, and more digital. That’s true. The tools are better. Workflows are faster. The distance between people has, in
Belonging as Business Strategy: Why “Tribe” Still Matters in a Digital Workplace Read More »
CATEGORY: Leadership When the Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball beat the North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball again recently in college basketball’s most famous rivalry, the story was supposed to be about bragging rights. Instead, it quietly confirmed something far more remarkable. With that win, Jon Scheyer became the winningest coach in NCAA Division I
What Jon Scheyer Is Teaching Leaders About Following a Legend Read More »
Most business books try to simplify leadership into frameworks. The Hard Thing About Hard Things does the opposite. It removes the illusion that there’s a clean, repeatable playbook for running a company—especially when things are going wrong. What Ben Horowitz captures, often uncomfortably, is this: in real operating environments, the CEO’s job is not to
CATEGORY: Leadership When Robert Duvall died this week, most tributes focused on the obvious markers of greatness, the range and sheer longevity of his career: The Godfather. Apocalypse Now. Tender Mercies. Lonesome Dove. His was a career that shaped film for more than sixty years. But what stayed with me, more than any single role,
What Robert Duvall Taught Me About Leadership Read More »
In executive environments, composure is often mistaken for clarity. Many senior leaders are highly skilled at emotional intelligence. They regulate their tone, read the room, and manage perception with ease. They stay calm under pressure and keep meetings moving forward. On the surface, this looks like strong leadership. And yet, many of these same leaders
When Emotional Intelligence Becomes Performance Management Read More »
People rarely put “leadership roles” at the top of the list of jobs AI is transforming. But the realityis, AI is now changing more than how leaders work – it’s changing how they develop. A growing number of CEOs and other executives are turning to ChatGPT and other GenerativeAI tools as a kind of digital
The Rise of the "AI-Coached CEO" and Why Real Leadership Still Requires Real Humans Read More »
