4 Pillars of Business Integrity from the World Economic Forum
This time last year, I traveled to Dubai to participate in the Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption. The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils are an interdisciplinary multi-stakeholder network, grouped into specific themes...
Why Modern Meritocracy Is Broken
If the 2016 election felt like a polarizing set of choices for American voters, the upcoming election makes that one look almost benign. Never has America been more divided as we struggle through a pandemic,...
The African Perspective: A Conversation with Uzodinma Iweala
Listen to “Episode 19 – Dr. Uzodinma Iweala” on Spreaker. In this episode of the Breaking the Fever podcast, we speak with Uzodinma Iweala about how race, culture, and class have shaped the COVID-19 crisis and...
How Tesla Should Combat Child Labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Elon Musk recently announced that Tesla plans to manufacture 20 million electric-powered vehicles by 2030. His bold growth target dovetails with California Governor Gavin Newsom’s announcement that he will propose that his state require all new cars...
Why Do People Become Whistleblowers?
Listening to one of our latest episodes on Breaking the Fever—our podcast in partnership with Preventable Surprises—I was struck by the acuity of one remark in particular. It was about the mind of a whistleblower,...
Are You My New Boss?
A client recently came to me with a suspicion. Even after a workshop that ironed out most of the kinks in the organization she had just taken over as executive director, one of her employees,...
Is a Weak Compliance Program Worse Than No Program?
Many years ago I was asked by a prospective client if I could design a “C minus” (i.e., just barely passing) compliance program for them. I responded that, for various reasons, by aiming for a...
The Seahawks’ Psychologist Explains How Leaders Can Unlock Team Potential
With football season officially underway, even without full stadiums, sports fans are cheering in relief that at least COVID-19, for all the havoc it’s wreaked, didn’t take this away. As we make the transition from...
The NBA and Why Deep Listening, Authentic Introspection, and Transformative Empowerment Matter
When the N.B.A. and its players’ union recently agreed on a simple, yet effective set of actions to advance social justice and racial equality in America, they showed that, in the face of deeply painful...
The Gray Rhino Trump Ignored and Still Tries to Hide
Perhaps nothing more perfectly encapsulates Michele Wucker’s idea of a “gray rhino”—an obvious threat, a crisis we see coming—than the COVID-19 pandemic. And perhaps no one more perfectly represents the onlooker—who doesn’t get out of...