Drive Results – With or Without Committees
Drive Results - With or Without Committees My newsletter on culture committees stirred up more reaction than anything I have written in months. Not because people agree on the answer, but because they are wrestling with the same tension. Committees can be powerful, and they can also stall real progress when they are asked to carry responsibility without authority or to communicate values that are not reinforced by systems. This week’s edition of This Week in Culture is about what comes next. Research from Harvard Business Review, Gallup, and MIT Sloan keeps pointing to the same conclusion. Culture does not move because people meet more often. It moves when decision rights, metrics,...
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“At Their Most Vulnerable”
"At Their Most Vulnerable" This week I’m speaking to hundreds of healthcare leaders about one of their toughest challenges: the rise of workplace...
False Haste: When Waiting Becomes Wisdom
False Haste: When Waiting Becomes Wisdom This week I wrote about a lesson that connects my Master of Divinity studies with corporate culture: the...
Once Again, Story Trumps Data
Once Again, Story Trumps Data. More than 800,000 people have been laid off this year with little public outcry. Yet when Jimmy Kimmel was suspended,...
AI Isn’t the Villain. Fear Is.
AI Isn’t the Villain. Fear Is. Micha Kaufman’s announcement at Fiverr is being torn apart online, but let’s be clear about what’s really happening....
What If Instead of Leaning In, We Started Letting Go?
What If Instead of Leaning In, We Started Letting Go? For years, I believed the story we were all told — that if I just leaned in harder, spoke...
Psychological Bravery > Psychological Safety
Psychological Bravery > Psychological Safety Psychological safety has been the dominant conversation in leadership for years, but it has its...
Over-Accountable Leaders Hold Their Teams Back
Over-Accountable Leaders Hold Their Teams Back When leaders take too much accountability, it can quietly hold their teams back. On the surface,...
That’s Not What I Meant
That’s Not What I Meant This week’s This Week in Culture is about one of the toughest lessons in leadership: you are not judged by your intention,...
You Can’t Lead It Until You Live It
You Can’t Lead It Until You Live It This week’s This Week in Culture is about a truth I have seen play out in every successful culture...
How to Make Purpose Actually Work
How to Make Purpose Actually Work Conscious Capitalism redefined success for modern business, showing us that doing good and doing well aren’t...
A Culture for All Generations
Disrupting the way we think about generations to attract, engage, and retain all employees
There’s a real benefit in dismantling the perceptions behind Gen Z or X, or whatever the next trendy label is! Citing extensive academic research from her book, Unfairly Labeled, Jessica provides a refreshingly enlightening and data-driven perspective on how multi-generational organizations can strip away stereotypes and and biases that hinder performance and prevent progress toward a common purpose.
