How to ask better questions and why we all need to
One of the first assignments I got as a college journalist was to write a profile for my college newspaper on the winningest basketball...
How to recruit top talent (and stop losing your best people in the process)
Apple’s the richest company world, yet the Bed, Bath, and Beyond that it’s next to likely pays 7.5 times as much in rent. Why? Apple does...
4 steps to building more curiosity on your team and why it matters
The best scene in “Ted Lasso” happens in the first season. One of the show’s antagonists, Rupert Mannion, challenges Lasso to a game of...
What therapy can teach us about being better leaders
As the story goes now, Orville and Wilbur Wright were geniuses. Unfortunately, that story is wrong. Convinced of their genius and the...
What French parents and The Doobie Brothers can teach us about leadership
My favorite pause in a song happens at 2:40 in The Doobie Brothers' "Long Train Running." That pause, called a caesura, left me on the...
The leader skill you need to master to disentangle yourself from conflict
Daryl Davis never set out to persuade hundreds of white nationalists to give up their allegiances to organizations propagating racial...
Want to run better meetings? Here’s a simple, no-prep method we’re all underusing
Georgia O'Keefe was meticulous about the frames surrounding her paintings. To her, frames helped the "viewers to consider the way the...
4 steps to eliminating toxic team behavior
Bad behavior on a team can spread like wildfire. What starts out as one person's complaining quickly becomes the team's mode of operation...
Failure is overrrated. Try this instead
The travel photographer Chris Burkard wasn’t expecting to capture a volcanic eruption in real time on film. Burkard, though, whose 3.7...
Want to be a better leader? Do what Van Gogh did
Vincent Van Gogh couldn't find a model to paint. It was winter. It was cold. And the models he wanted to paint were adamant about staying...
What Wu-Tang has to teach us about running a world-class team
Rza, the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, needed just one year. U-God, fresh off a prison sentence, was at his house. Guns, money,...
Learning from the masters: Samin Nosrat, master chef
"No one's born a good cook," says Samin Nosrat. "You have to learn and practice." Nosrat, an Iranian-American chef who has done more for...
Want to be a better coach? Follow Wynton Marsalis's lead
Wynton Marsalis’s talent isn’t an accident. Marsalis, a virtuoso trumpeter with nine Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer, had a philosophy about...
Self-awareness: why we have less than we think and how to get more
What’s the best way to prevent someone from speeding down the street in your neighborhood, assuming cost wasn’t an issue? A) Increase...
Learning from the masters: Jesse Marsch
What would you do if you inherited a team that was led by one of the most successful managers your company had ever seen? Jesse Marsch...