It’s much easier to react quickly, to defend ourselves and condemn others, or to enforce our ingoing beliefs. It’s much harder to really listen and find what might be right about the other person’s perspective.

If an organization moves to an Agile Strategy rather than a fixed, say, “five year strategic plan,” how should it think about updating the plan? The OODA Loop.

The leadership literature says that leaders should show vulnerability. But can black leaders be vulnerable in the workplace? It's tricky.

In Unleashed, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that leaders should make real choices in strategy. And they suggest that we can do the same in our family lives.

Rather than an arbitrary “five year plan,” here’s an approach to creating strategic plans that are only “good enough” and to putting energy into robust planning routines.

In a recent Monday Musing, I asked for suggestions of books on leadership, strategy, and organizations that have been written by women or people of color. Here are the results!

Organizations need both diversity and inclusion to make a difference, and those start with the actions that leaders take every day.