“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...
There’s a practical question I’m sometimes asked by leaders as they shift their teams from slow and siloed ways of working to fast, bold and inclusive collaboration: “How do we keep track of rapid decisions when we’re playing as a team?” It’s a critical question in today’s fast-paced business environment. As organizations move away from...
Twenty years ago, I wrote Never Eat Alone, a book that transformed how millions approach networking and relationship-building. As I reflect on the book’s 20th anniversary year and two decades of working with leaders and teams across the globe, one truth stands out: the power of meaningful connections to achieve ambitious goals has been the...
Resilience isn’t just a buzzword in today’s volatile business landscape—it’s a critical skill for survival and success. Yet, our research at the Ferrazzi Greenlight Research Institute has uncovered a startling gap: only 14% of team members feel they have a collective responsibility to lift each other’s energy and mental well-being. In most teams, resilience is...
In today’s fast-paced business world, the ability to learn and adapt quickly isn’t just nice to have—it’s essential for survival and success. We cannot possibly think we are equipped for what is happening around the corner. That’s everyone and every team—including the C-suite. There is a false belief among people who reach the leader ranks...
Few leaders really geek out on engineering their team behaviors and cultures of their companies. But those who do are typically engineers like Arvind Krishna, the CEO at IBM, who have turned their attention to not only the meticulous engineering of their products but their processes and ways of working. These are the rare 15%....
In the heat of a high-stakes championship game, a coach throws a red flag onto the football field. Play pauses. The team does not dwell on mistakes or look to place blame; they want to check everyone is aligned and playing by the agreed-upon rules. Now let us imagine that same commitment to shared accountability...
Watching a teammate struggle and thinking it’s someone else’s job to help is no answer to the high-pressure times we live in. The data speaks for itself. According to the latest research by global HR experts Mercer, more than 80% of employees are at risk of burnout. Financial strain, exhaustion, and excessive workload are among the...
In today’s volatile world, the most successful teams are bold in their thinking, inclusive in their collaboration, and fast in their decision-making—as a team, they’ve learned to discuss, disagree, and decide well. The vital element in this relational dynamic is trust. But it hasn’t happened by chance. In the top 15% of organizations, trust is...
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