“I’m waiting for you to retire so we can get a divorce.” It was not the answer the chief financial officer of one of America’s largest public companies expected when he tried a workplace candor exercise on his wife. He had written her a dinner invitation suggesting they have a conversation about everything they never...
Most organizations waste tremendous time and potential in unproductive meetings, when the real collaboration could happen before anyone enters the room. When Matt Mullenweg, cofounder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, showed me his company’s workflow system, I glimpsed the future of collaboration that 85% of companies still haven’t awakened to. His 1,900 employees across...
In an operating room, a surgical technician notices something concerning during a procedure. In traditional hospital hierarchies, they might hesitate to speak up. But a transformation in healthcare leadership is under way that would make that moment of hesitation unthinkable. The old deference to hierarchical leadership is giving way to a new mode of behavior...
As major corporations issue return-to-office mandates, organizational leaders focus on the wrong metrics. The critical question isn’t where employees work but how teams collaborate to drive results. Data from more than 3,000 global teams analyzed by the Ferrazzi Greenlight Research Institute indicates that transforming traditional leadership models to more collaborative peer-to-peer “teamship” yields measurable performance...
Our traditional instinct has been to look to our leaders to steer a clear path through uncertain and complex times. But marshaling the foresight to navigate today’s volatility and disruption requires something more than leadership. It requires teamship—the combined talent and insight of peers sharing the leadership load rather than expecting one heroic individual to...
Sometimes, you get challenged with a question that opens up your goals—that reaches right into your why? An editor asked me recently, “What’s the most rewarding aspect of writing about leadership?” When I wrote my first book, Never Eat Alone, I had people from around the world tell me that it changed their life. When...
For decades, business has elevated the role of the leader. But our research with more than 3,000 teams reveals a stark reality: traditional leadership approaches leave leave billions of dollars of shareholder value on the table. When teams adopt what I call “Co-elevation” – a commitment among teammates to win together and push each other...
David Brancaccio, host of Marketplace Morning Report, the long-running public radio show, is a master of the art of sharp questions—and he aimed one in my direction he interviewed me this week about the difference between good leaders and great teams. “I think many people listening will be scarred by some of their previous experience...
Forget what you thought you knew about leading teams—old ideas no longer apply in a world of remote work, artificial intelligence, and constant disruption. In fact, just 15% of the world’s most successful companies have engineered a totally new way of collaboration. To win in today’s volatile world, you cannot think your way into a...
For years, I almost turned my back on by bestselling book, Never Eat Alone. Despite the book’s global success, I was reluctant to be labeled “the networking guy.” I always felt my mission was different: cracking the code of how to create better organizations, transform business and transform the world. But 20 years after writing...
One of the most successful senior executives I know at a Fortune 100 company makes a ritual of airing his team’s dirty laundry once a week — he calls it the Outlier Meeting, and it’s where hard issues stay on the agenda until they are fixed. “This isn’t the time or place for parade laps...
Organizations often talk about the types of culture they want to see—a candid culture, a collaborative culture, an accountable culture, a customer-centric culture, an agile culture, an inclusive culture, a resilient culture, or a culture with a growth mindset. But they miss that it all can simply boil down to the execution of simple practices...
Alignment is one of the rare attributes of truly world-class teams—and a true competitive advantage. The world may be volatile and uncertain, but dream team members know what their peers are working on, what goals are being activated; they know everyone is aligned on the same critical mission. By contrast, teams in siloed organizations are...
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