Know What's Happening in Leadership
Know What's Happening in Leadership
Leaders Turn Uncertainty into Action with 90‑Day Plans
CEOs are urged to move beyond scenario analysis and adopt a focused 90‑day action plan that highlights a handful of priority initiatives, trigger‑based decisions, and clear ownership. By breaking the horizon into 30‑, 60‑ and 90‑day milestones, leaders can adapt quickly while protecting cash flow and pursuing selective growth.
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By the numbers: USA Esports secures $500k sponsorships
Hayley Williams, Grammy‑winning frontwoman of Paramore, co‑founded Good Dye Young with longtime hairstylist Brian O’Connor a decade ago. The duo built the vibrant hair‑dye brand from a personal friendship and a shared love of self‑expression, deliberately downplaying Williams' celebrity status. At SXSW they emphasized the company’s culture‑first ethos, positioning the product as a vehicle for feeling rather than a Paramore endorsement. Good Dye Young now targets a generation that values bold color, cruelty‑free formulas, and authentic brand stories.
Answering questions for a profile piece being done on me for Women's History Month. Pleased to have the opportunity to be reflective about the value I bring to the table beyond credentials. Credentials are safe; they exist outside us. But to demonstrate...
Elastix.AI, led by former Meta and Apple AI scientist Dr. Mohammad Rastegari, is building a reconfigurable FPGA‑based inference platform that promises dramatically lower cost and power consumption for large‑scale AI models. The company claims up to ten‑fold reductions in inference...
The article, the second in a six‑part series on building strategic capacity, argues that most CEOs treat strategy as an occasional activity rather than a core capability. Operational leaders often excel at execution but lack the "strategic bone" needed for...
Tom Oliver warns that low trust among family‑business leaders creates a hidden tax that erodes value and slows decision‑making. When inner‑circle members withhold information or avoid conflict, CEOs receive filtered data, leading to costly mistakes. The article outlines how mistrust...
Emma Grede, founder of Good American and author of a forthcoming book, warned that remote‑work culture is eroding career advancement and personal connections. She insists her team work in the office five days a week, arguing that visibility drives promotions...
Trust has stagnated in developed countries: People have lost trust in institutions and are becoming more insular. This is linked to increased conflict at work and lost productivity. The most popular solution is to facilate trust by having leaders and employers...
Vivo Performing Arts, the newly renamed former Celebrity Series of Boston, announced Thor Steingraber as its next President and Chief Executive Officer, effective June 2026. Steingraber succeeds Gary Dunning, who led the organization for 15 years, becoming the fifth leader...
Effective Q&A handling isn’t about rapid answers but about staying grounded. Leaders who view questions as collaborative rather than confrontational reduce stress and improve listening. Preparing a concise list of 15‑20 probable questions a week in advance and scripting full‑sentence...
One of the greatest tests of leadership is having the hard conversation. Most leaders know it matters—but many avoid it, delay it, or handle it poorly because conflict feels uncomfortable.
The article argues that the modern CISO must become a business leader, not just a technical specialist. It stresses translating technical risk into revenue‑impact language for the board. Key skills include aligning security initiatives with business outcomes, building executive relationships,...
Vita Coco co‑founder Mike Kirban argues that the speed of recovery—how quickly a company rebounds from setbacks—defines its competitive advantage. He highlights the daunting scale of the U.S. liquid‑refreshment market, which hit 36.4 billion gallons in 2024, and the harsh reality that...
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg told CNBC that Silicon Valley’s hyper‑masculine rhetoric has created "one of the worst" corporate climates she has ever seen. She linked the cultural shift to Mark Zuckerberg’s public calls for more "masculine energy" and to...
David Ellison, Skydance Media chief and son of Oracle co‑founder Larry Ellison, is spearheading a merger that would combine Paramount and Warner Bros. into a single entertainment powerhouse. The deal, valued at roughly $30 billion, promises up to 30 theatrical releases...
Rohini Laya Venkateswaran has been named executive director of Gillette India Pvt. Ltd., while continuing as chief sales officer for the Indian Subcontinent. The veteran brings more than two decades of Procter & Gamble experience, including senior roles in sales...
Applied Intuition, the AI software firm behind autonomous‑driving tools for manufacturers like Toyota, announced a $15 billion valuation after a $600 million Series F round. CEO Qasar Younis insists employees wipe their own desks, remove shoes at the door, and participate in a...
Most founders fail for one reason: lack of focus. The best ones obsess over product and users while others chase coffee with investors, conferences, PR, partnerships, and social media debates. If it does not improve your product or help you...
Leaders can drive AI adoption by involving teams in defining use cases. Task groups with identifying challenges and brainstorming AI solutions for their specific organizational pain points. #AIStrategy #Leadership #Innovation https://t.co/CTf0pDNecw
The article reframes leadership through a digital lens, emphasizing agility, data‑driven empathy, and ecosystem thinking. It outlines seven pillars—mindset shift, fail‑fast learning, iterative thinking, information‑driven empathy, informed intuition, personalization at scale, and digital savvy—that distinguish modern leaders from traditional commanders....
Most leaders are asking: “How can AI speed up my email?” The better question: “How should AI reshape my entire org chart?” Task-level thinking produces incremental improvements. Structural thinking produces transformational ones. We do the structural thinking inside the AI Business Lab® Mastermind....
Nvidia CEO: Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered. https://t.co/xQN5o0hmbn
The article uses the classic penny‑doubling thought experiment to illustrate how tiny, consistent actions generate massive results over time. It extends the compounding principle from finance to habits, health, learning, and leadership, arguing that daily improvements or lapses accumulate exponentially....
“Many managers are poor at the paramount #leadership tasks—like instilling effectiveness in their teams, inspiring & energizing staff, holding people to account, dealing with stakeholder antics, etc. They impede their team/org. success.” 🔗 https://t.co/ysdPb3UXGz #management https://t.co/BehrKWxUii
Bezos discussed the dramatic layoffs and change of direction at The Washington Post over a lunch of pecan-crusted halibut, sliced steak medium-rare, patatas bravas and sautéed vegetables. https://t.co/A4ZCdTp23E via @NYTimes
Lisa Towles argues that true leadership emerges when prepared materials fail and executives must rely on instinct. While most senior leaders invest heavily in detailed decks and risk models, boards now prioritize strategic agility and the ability to pivot under...
Decisions made with incomplete info often lead to regret with hindsight. Go into evaluations with your eyes wide open to make better choices. #DecisionMaking #BusinessStrategy https://t.co/rHhTCF1uxJ
Having something to say isn’t enough. It’s not what you say but how you say it. Make your message come alive by engaging your audience emotionally. #PublicSpeakingTips #EngagingAudiences #ProfessionalSkills #frippvt
In this episode, Gary Guseinov, CEO of RealDefense, recounts how he grew the company from a $7M ARR acquisition in 2017 to $70M in revenue and $25M EBITDA today, primarily through a disciplined acquisition strategy that adds synergies, reduces CAC,...
Raymond Gerber, co‑founder of the Institute for Journey Management, outlines a nine‑stage blueprint that transforms fragmented CX projects into enterprise‑wide customer obsession. He warns that traditional, siloed CX initiatives often trigger an awareness stage when ROI fails to materialize. The...
In the @nytimes, @loracorkelley reports on the rise of “bossware,” technology managers use to monitor employees. The phenomenon has been around for years but is now being super-charged by AI. It can take many forms, including monitoring keyboard strokes and even pauses. As...
Photonic Inc., a developer of scalable quantum computing and networking solutions, announced the appointment of Don Mattrick as chief executive officer and Paul Terry as chief product officer following a $130 million financing round. Mattrick will steer the company’s commercial scaling,...
Legendary coach Dawn Staley built trust with future WNBA star Bianca Cuevas by revealing a shared inner‑city upbringing, turning a defensive recruit into a top guard. The story illustrates how leaders can leverage common life experiences to break down barriers...
Effective delegation is not a transfer of tasks. It is a transfer of decision-making authority guided by shared understanding.
One of the most dangerous barriers in organizations is invisible. Psychologists call it learned helplessness. After repeated setbacks, people stop trying, even when the constraint is gone. Not because they can’t act, but because experience has convinced them it won’t work. You see it...
Burnout is increasingly recognized as a systemic failure within multifamily property management, where exhausted staff make poorer decisions, communicate less effectively, and disengage. The daily huddle format highlights that burnout is not merely an HR issue but an operational risk...
Unpopular opinion: your culture problem is not a culture problem. It is a psychology problem nobody has been trained to name. Unspoken power dynamics. Misaligned incentives. Leaders whose self-concept cannot tolerate feedback. Culture is just psychology at scale. Treat it that way.
The question isn’t, “Are we people-centric?” but “Would our employees and customers say we are?” Learn why that matters: People-Centric or Profit-Centric: Reframing the Question in 2026 https://t.co/ofrGuZyasl #peoplecentric #profit #customerexperience #employeeexperience https://t.co/lquM4MeqSj
Lululemon is searching for a new CEO after Calvin McDonald’s departure, with its market value dropping from $60 billion to under $20 billion. Activist Elliott Investment Management is pushing former Ralph Lauren executive Jane Nielsen, while founder Chip Wilson is leading a proxy battle to...
Beyond 10X: Rethinking Leadership Standards in the Solar+ Sector #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/31jUrghyFv
The work isn’t crafting values; it’s living them. Values show up in calendars, promotions, and confrontations.
Ric Grenell is stepping down as president of the Kennedy Center after a turbulent year marked by a Trump‑backed "America First" overhaul. Appointed interim president in February 2025, Grenell redirected programming toward classical, patriotic content, renamed the venue to include...
Projected Helplessness: How It Presents in Leaders, Teams, and Organisational Systems @ABPsychologists https://t.co/0XrksxEgYC #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Gretzky’s insight about skating to where the puck is going is not just a metaphor for leadership intuition-it is increasingly a description of how AI-enabled organizations operate. The difference today is that leaders no longer rely on intuition alone. https://t.co/d5hehUmOVS
As difficult as it is to scale infrastructure… …the hardest thing is to scale people. Yet technical founders spend most of their time on tech, because it’s interesting. Exactly wrong. That’s what you’re good at hiring for. Go solve the more important, harder problem.
“We only give a couple of instructions to people when they go to work for us. One of them is to think like an owner. And the second one is to just tell us the bad news immediately.” – Warren...
CEOs who delegate well generate 33% more revenue than those who don’t. Step 3 of calendar triage: hand off what doesn’t require you. https://t.co/NSN09jpDaQ
#TimTalk - Isn’t ‘Radical Humility’ just a recipe for decision-paralysis and death-by-committee? with Urs Koenig https://t.co/r1yVtyC6wr via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Marketing #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Management #Inspiration
Just because something is useful doesn’t mean it’s useful right now. One of the most important parts of my job as both a fractional CMO and the CEO of BRDGE Insights is keeping the team focused on what actually moves the...
Nvidia CEO on how setbacks must be viewed as opportunities to learn and grow (A masterclass on the importance of grit, persistence, long-term thinking and doing) https://t.co/MokMDrhW97
RT Not ready to manage people? Start by mentoring one junior engineer in 2026. Teaching security, reliability, and stakeholder skills is a low-risk way to practice leadership and grow your own influence. #DevOps #AI @Star_CIO https://t.co/4zYT9dEmxc
