New research from Gartner finds that in many companies, the C-suite team isn''t acting like one. Surveys show that just 31% of C-suite executives consider the C-suite to be their primary team. When senior leaders are asked about their team, they''re more likely to think about their functional units-marketing, finance, technology-and the people below them on the org chart. This alignment contributes to behaviors and dynamics that create .....more

Leadership theory suggests CEOs should focus on high-level issues such as strategy and resource allocation. These authors challenge this conventional wisdom by spotlighting CEOs who dive deep into day-to-day execution rather than hovering at the strategic level. By exploring best practices at Amazon, Danaher, RELX, and Toyota, they argue that top-performing companies thrive because of leaders who actively shape how work gets done. These CEOs-Jeff .....more

High-performing leaders often face internal limiting beliefs that hinder their effectiveness and career growth. Identifying and reframing these hidden blockers can unlock greater leadership potential and improve team and organizational outcomes. Common limiting beliefs include the need to be involved in every detail, an urgency for immediate results, a belief in always being right, a fear of making mistakes, expectations that others should perform .....more

In the book 1929, the New York Times journalist and CNBC coanchor Andrew Ross Sorkin explores the events leading up to the historic stock market crash that set off the Great Depression. The parallels between them and those chronicled in Sorkin''s earlier book on the 2008 financial crisis, Too Big to Fail, are striking-and more than a little unsettling.

In July 2024, Gareth Southgate stepped down from his position as manager of the England national men''s soccer team. He left the role after eight years in charge-a period in which he guided England to a fourth-place finish at the FIFA World Cup in Russia in 2018 and the quarterfinals at the World Cup in Qatar in 2022, as well as two runners-up finishes at the European Championship (''the Euros'') in 2020 and 2024. When he commenced .....more

In 2025, songwriter Jamie Hartman and screenwriter Ed Bennett-Coles signed an agreement with Broadcast Music, Inc, to launch ARK, an intellectual property protection app. The pair were creative industry veterans who had observed longstanding problems with collaborative work: intentional and unintentional plagiarism, idea theft, and poorly-regulated systems for assigning credit. In the 2020s, they warily observed the rise of artificial intelligence, .....more

Most of us have met super-facilitators-people with a talent for bringing individual group members together, combining each one''s unique strengths to promote optimal team performance. Super-facilitators integrate diverse expertise, promote equitable contributions, and cultivate trust among teammates, generating collective intelligence-a group''s ability to solve problems together. In this article Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki surveys .....more

All leaders-from new managers to seasoned executives-must delegate tasks to free up time and attention for the big-picture work their more-senior roles demand. But too often leaders find themselves caught in the weeds of execution. This article helps leaders determine which work to keep and which is better left to a team member. Then it identifies four challenges that stop even those who know how to delegate from doing it successfully: (1) an addiction .....more

There''s nothing new about humans seeking to optimize their health and extend their lives (Hippocrates espoused cold baths; Benjamin Franklin touted vegetarianism), but the medium has changed. Three popular podcasts-The Drive, by Peter Attia; Huberman Lab, by Andrew Huberman; and Ground Truths, by Eric Topel-the book Super Agers, also by Topol; and the documentary Don''t Die, directed by Chris Smith, offer advice on living longer and .....more