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 […]
Personality-Type Filters Masquerading as Leadership Assessment
Originally published on CEO World. The leadership development industry—or the Keynote Cartel, as I call them—is composed mainly of professors, behavioral scientists, researchers and consultants. Their books on leadership, while popular, have misled us all into believing that, to be an effective leader, you need to ‘feel things’ a certain way. As a result, they […]