Between January 2025 and 2026, we’ve moved from feeling aggrieved to becoming more insular, according to the recently released 2026 edition of the Global Edelman Trust Barometer, “Trust Amid Insularity.” This year’s report, Edelman’s 26th consecutive one, shows that 7...

Are you noticing how many of us are being more considerate in our interactions with gen AI than we are with our fellow humans? With AI, we carefully and thoughtfully provide prompts to AI. With our fellow humans, we often open our mouths and think out loud. In other...

For this year, I’ve selected the value of empathy to support my focal phrase, chameleon leaders, as explained in this early January blog post Why and how to be an empathetic chameleon leader in 2026. My aim as an empathetic chameleon leader is to practice the platinum...

As context, this marks the sixth year I’ve chosen a focal word/phrase and the first time I’ve selected a value. Here’s my thinking around these two choices, including their immediate relevancy. First, chameleon leaders. Chameleons are the ultimate connectors and...

For 2025, I returned to reading business books after taking a break in 2024 with fiction and theatre-related books. However, I didn’t blog much about books this year, writing instead on a range of issues that interested my clients and me. Now, I want to share my five...

Making an effort to Improve employee engagement may not help your people -- and your organization and its performance -- if individuals are more concerned about being fulfilled than engaged. What's the difference between fulfillment and engagement? Fulfillment is...

Have you tried reframing the uncertainty we're living with as an "opportunity to learn" rather than as a threat? Uncertainty can be a positive trigger for creativity and growth. If this sounds like a ridiculous proposition, think again. New and ongoing neuroscience...

How familiar are you with the SCARF® model of the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI)? Introduced formally in 2008 as a handy framework for first understanding human behavior at work and then determining how to motivate people more effectively, SCARF consists of five key...

What’s glue got to do with it? A lot if you want to hold together high-performing teams. While glue is generally considered an adhesive for repairing broken treasures, creating crafts, and providing children’s art classes with hours of engagement and enjoyment, glue...