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During leadership trainings I will often ask participants to describe what good (and poor) feedback looks and feels like. At one recent talk to midlevel managers, I received the following descriptors about strong feedback: Honest Transparent Predictable Prepared...

There is a growing epidemic that is killing us as leaders, and it’s completely curable. Our culture is filled with more anxiety and stress than ever. None of us were built to handle what we are all dealing with on a daily basis. The average knowledge worker today is...

As kids, we're told that good people keep promises. We're taught it in school and church; we read it in books and advertisements; we even hear it in Disney movies. Somewhere along the way, Western business culture forgot the importance of keeping promises. Nowadays,...

What’s your plan for becoming a better public speaker? Sure there’s a lot of books out there that you can read and of course you could always decide to take one of those expensive classes that are offered every once in awhile, but isn’t there a better way? It turns...

Executive dysfunction is usually associated with attention disorders, but we all know what it’s like. No matter how much we need to make a decision, we simply can’t. We organize, we plan, we stress, and then we plan some more — and yet we still can’t choose. Although...

As a part of my series about strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Susan Melnick. Susan is the Founder and CEO of StatusNow. After graduating college, Susan worked at a local Internet start-up in Pittsburgh before leaving to teach Computer Science...

It was only four years ago that AlphaGo began beating the world’s top professional Go players and Google released TensorFlow, an open-source software library for machine learning applications such as neural networks. Since then, along with the expansion of IBM’s...