What Executive Presence Was Trying to Name (And Where It Went Wrong)
Presence is real. Anyone who has been in a room with a leader whose stillness reorganized the conversation knows that. Anyone who has watched a senior person walk into a meeting and visibly shift the temperature of the room without saying a word knows it. Presence is...
The Category Mistake in Leadership Development
Most leadership budgets in this country are being spent on the wrong category of work. Not because the vendors are wrong. Not because the executives are wrong. Because the question underneath the budget never gets named. The question is whether the program you are...
AI Readiness, Honestly Measured: The 5 Dimensions Most Leaders Don’t Score Themselves On
Most leadership teams I work with have an honest read on one or two dimensions of their organization’s artificial intelligence (AI) readiness (usually strategy, sometimes infrastructure) and a partial or absent read on the rest. The strategy gets built on the...
The Confidence Gap Your AI Strategy Can’t Survive
Most leadership teams I talk to have at least one leader who is confident about their artificial intelligence (AI) readiness. The decks are sharp, the pilots are running, the vendor conversations are progressing. One pattern I have noticed: confidence rarely extends...