We Called the Fire Department and They Sent the Dalmatian
The leadership development industry, or what I sometimes call the leadership industrial complex, has one great skill. It can package a bunch of nothing as something and sell it to us at a premium. Amazingly, they’ve turned it into a $100 billion business that relies upon sounding wise without ever having done the thing they’re […]
The End of HR as We Know It
Obsolescence. It comes for everyone…and everything, eventually. For as long as the corporate world can remember, there’s been HR. Human Resources. Even the words sound archaic when said aloud. So much of what is transforming the business landscape isn’t even “human” to begin with, and yet we still have this department that leads a strangely […]
The Great Lie: Why Teams Don’t Exist in Business
Originally published on thoughtleadersllc.com Shared goals are anathema in business. The ultimate individual sport: raises, rankings, promotions, every person for themselves. Today’s post is by Larry Coval, author of the forthcoming book Misled: Why (Almost) Everything You Learned About Leadership Is Wrong and How to Fix It (Girl Friday Productions, September 2026). I remember thinking how […]
How to fix the leadership crisis
Originally published on Board Agenda. The leadership crisis we’re in has an origin story. Understand it and you understand how to fix it. For most of the 20th century, up until the early 1990’s, leaders in business were typically known for their command-and-control style. It wasn’t uncommon for bosses to be brutally direct, even overly […]
AI Isn’t Replacing Banking Leadership. It’s Exposing Its Weaknesses
Originally published on Finopotamus. Financial services leads nearly every sector in terms of AI deployment, at least on paper. Most big banks are running fully autonomous AI in production at more than double the rate of the broader market, and most leaders say it’s making them more competitive. Meanwhile, some of those same leaders admit […]