As I explained in a recent blogpost, there are no options for us: If we want to be credible transformational leaders, the guarantee that our people expect is to see us “put skin in the game” and suffer with them. And our suffering has one name: Spectacularly change...
Each time I meet a CEO or other high-ranking Officer, who’s had the insight that the Disruption Economy requires her organization to transform itself and wants it NOW, my question comes as early as it can in the dialogue: “How badly do you want this change to take...
For Peter Drucker, Business had a different purpose than increasing shareholder value, obsessing about share price or EBITDA monitoring. For one of the most respected leaders in the field of management education, our duty as business leaders is to reinforce democracy...
Nick McRoberts and I, recently had the privilege to be invited to a moving ode to Paris Street Art, the 5* Hotel Molitor. The French Accor Hotels group took a real entrepreneurial risk in transforming this abandoned open-air swimming pool in the Center of Paris, to...
I guess many of you have seen by now this remarkable short TED talk (3 minutes) from Derek Sivers, dated from 2009 on which I had written a blog post in 2010. But what a few only may have seen is what happened to him, before this “Visionary Leader” finally created a...
