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Why You Should Create an Employee-First Culture For the first time in years, and perhaps decades, employees have unprecedented leverage in the workplace. Call it the Great Resignation or the Great Reshuffle, many employees are reevaluating everything from their work-life balance to the work they do for businesses. This reprioritization has employees looking to realign

Thayer Leadership’s Dan Rice, right, serves as an unpaid special advisor to General Valeriy Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. By almost any measure, one of the most effective national leaders of the last few decades is Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, who has won praise around the world for the way he’s rallied his nation

An efficient executive search is usually a successful one. When schedules are set, agendas are respected, deadlines are met, and decisions are made on time, the result tends to be a process that participants feel good about and one that has found the right candidate for the role. An efficient search is especially important today

As the founder and CEO of Phantom Space, which aims to build hundreds of automated rockets to ferry thousands of satellites into space, I took my team to the car racetrack a few months ago.  I wanted everyone to watch the pit crews. The incredibly fast teamwork, the specialization and separation of duties as different

Fully 62% of business leaders say their companies need to do more to protect data, according to KPMG. Surveys show more consumers are worried about unlawful data sharing, such as through online advertising, than data breaches.   In our work with nearly 100 clients representing 75,000 websites, there are three common online advertising blindspots: misunderstanding the

Grammarly/Harris Poll released a study recently called The State of Business Communication. To examine what’s getting in the way of collaboration, productivity, and output in the hybrid work era, the research team surveyed 251 business leaders and 1001 knowledge workers employed full-time by companies with at least 150 employees. Among the more staggering findings: Poor

Many leaders avoid tough conversations.  As a result they contribute to mediocrity, and perpetuate an unsatisfactory status quo. They leave other people unaware of the problems and challenges that are theirs to solve and make progress with.  My work has focused on revealing the differences between more extraordinary leaders, and the average, typical, ho-hum leadership

Organizations are using 2022 as a “recovery year “ from the pandemic and the Great Resignation that has followed. As leaders we’re often jumping from fire drill to fire drill, so it’s easy to lose sight of long-term goals like countering the Great Resignation’s effects and listening to employee feedback. The data our company has

Despite how much is written about strategy and how much money is spent on it, academics and consultants continue to report chronic strategy practice failures: I argue that one reason for the failures is that strategy is still not fully defined. I’ve collected 75 concepts and definitions of strategy from authorities in multiple fields (see

The pandemic has led to an undeniable awareness of the need for a new C-suite leader, the CHO or the Chief Health Officer. This has been driven by the recognition of the importance of employee health for engagement, productivity, and risk management, along with lowering healthcare insurance costs. At the same time, more and more

As we all know, talent has been hard to come by in the current job market due to the Great Resignation brought on by the pandemic. The lack of skilled labor within the manufacturing industry and beyond has also added to the dilemma. The culmination of these two issues has pushed leaders of an organization

The concept of working from home ricochets around the media like an echo in a canyon, and the stories reveal an interesting duality. First, most employees whose jobs can be done from home actually enjoy it and would like all or at least some of their job to exist there; and second, most managers and

Much of the data reported about large public company CEOs emphasizes the equity portion of their comp plan. Our data shows unlike their public company counterparts, the median private company CEO does not typically receive new equity grants each year. While it may be obvious why CEOs did not receive new grants in 2020—many, in

Consumer overwhelm and distraction has seriously impacted shopping patterns and businesses around the globe. But consumers remember the brand experience, which makes it important for retailers to pay attention to the entire experience they create. As technology continues to be introduced for convenience purchasing, it’s important for retailers to adapt and pivot to technologies that

Over the past few years, the success of leading businesses and entrepreneurs has been thrust into the spotlight like we haven’t seen for many years with company values and profits surging. While no two businesses or entrepreneurs are the same, there are common traits that many of these most successful people exhibit. These range from

A common roadblock to growing your business and reaching full potential is the lack of monetary investment required to seize an opportunity and fund your operations. Capital investment is the acquisition of physical assets for use in furthering your long-term business goals. Capital investment can come from a wide variety of sources such as financial

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have an outsized impact on the health choices and lives of millions of American women and complicate (and likely consume) the country’s already fractious political landscape. It will also raise a host of tricky legal and political issues for CEOs and their companies—especially if

Face it. Your company taking a stance on a social issue won’t yield a perfect outcome. Committing to a social cause means being in league with others who are imperfect and, in some way, for reasons fair or unfair, offends someone else. No person or organization is perfect. If your organization doesn’t take a stance

Declining profits and economic uncertainty sparked by soaring inflation rates are introducing a new set of leadership challenges. Many companies—including Twitter, Netflix, Meta Platforms and Uber—have cut staff or frozen recruitment efforts despite the recent ‘Great Resignation.’ This cautious approach to hiring and spending from tech industry giants has created vulnerabilities that may undermine company

I want you to imagine that when you wake up tomorrow, everything you do will be done to the best of your ability. You’ll give 110% effort to each activity you’ve planned for your day, disregarding any fears you may have. No obstacles. No negative thinking. No procrastination. Do you think this attitude will impact