I have found the book, Both/And Thinking by Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis to be thought provoking and applicable for leaders in the wild. It is a very powerful read for all, but particularly for leaders.

I invite you to read on!

What happens when a valuable employee doesn’t model the preferred culture of your organization? Or worse, they exhibit behaviors that are truly unacceptable?

In this blog, I offer a framwork for thinking about this and the challenges that leaders face in taking the action that they know is necessary.

I invite you to read on!

Like many others, I found myself behind on AI. Who doesn’t? This blog is my first major effort to get up to speed and focuses on Ethan Mollick’s book Co-Intelligence. My major takeaways are really two-fold:

First, see AI as a partner — thought partner, productivity partner, etc. — not as a threat or substitute.

Second, lean into the need to be a learner and be in the learning posture.

I invite you to read more on the blog.

This is one of many moments in leadership where we confront paradox. The temptation is to think in either/or terms: task or people, strategy or empathy. But effectiveness comes from both/and thinking. Scholars like Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis have shown this across multiple domains, and their research has deeply influenced me.

As a mentor once said to me: “It’s simple. It’s just not easy.” Read more on the blog.