The Gig Economy Has Reached the Corner Office A third of new CEO appointments this year are interim or short-term. That is not a blip—it’s a shift....

Pretty Uneventful Week for CEOs, Right? A viral video of Astronomer’s CEO and CHRO at a Coldplay concert ignited more than just online gossip. It...

Fear and Faith Are Both a Belief in the Unknown Fear and faith are not opposites—they are two sides of the same coin. Both are rooted in...

You Can’t Collaborate With a Negotiator In every relationship—personal or professional—we eventually face friction. And when we do, we tend to show...

Your Culture Is Measured in Silence One of the most dangerous signals in any organization isn’t conflict. It’s silence. Leaders often chase...

Culture Captures the Cost Savings In this week’s CEO Daily Brief, I spoke with labor strategy expert John Frehse about the growing pressure leaders...

What Becoming a Death Doula Has Taught Me About Change Management After five years volunteering in UC Davis’s No One Dies Alone program, I recently...

You Have a Leadership Problem Accountability gets tossed around in every leadership meeting, but most companies still get it wrong. It often shows...

The One Question That Changed My Career  This question—What is your boss’s boss worried about?—has changed the way I work, lead, and think. It’s the...

Good Leaders Lie We’ve all heard the phrase “good leaders lie”—and not because they’re malicious, but because they think they have to. To protect...