by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Mar 26, 2025
A friend of mine once described working at Amazon as “building a rocket ship while being pushed off a cliff.” Back then, the company’s obsession with innovation made that intensity feel exciting. But today, Amazon’s attempt to reignite that startup energy feels less...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Mar 19, 2025
A year ago, I stumbled upon a video on YouTube that changed how I think about employee ownership. It wasn’t just another corporate success story—it was a moment of pure, raw emotion. Workers in a factory, some of whom had spent decades on the frontlines of their...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Mar 12, 2025
We’ve been sold a lie about leadership. We’ve been told that great leaders take control. That they set the vision, enforce accountability, drive engagement, and build culture through sheer willpower. But here’s the thing: Culture can’t be controlled. It can’t be...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Mar 5, 2025
In 2015, companies everywhere were rolling out their “Vision 2020” plans. It was catchy, it felt ambitious, and it gave organizations a defined five-year runway. Even as late as 2017, businesses were crafting three-year strategies that aligned with that neat,...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Feb 26, 2025
I just got off the phone with the CEO of a global corporation with a $75B market cap who was expressing a common challenge: her team needs to learn how to collaborate now more than ever. The old rules of leadership, where silos were merely inefficient, no longer...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Feb 12, 2025
AI has gone from public enemy number one to the golden child of innovation in record time. Just look at this week’s AI summit in Paris. JD Vance made his first major policy speech there, declaring that the U.S. is going all in on AI and urging other countries to...
