In many ways leadership is about fulfilling your own potential and getting others to follow along with your ideas, now you can’t fulfill your potential...

There are three really costly mistakes that women make when working in teams. The first is that because of how busy women’s lives are, particularly working women’s...

Productive conflict of probably one of the biggest “asks” that I make in You First. In the whole book I had to leave that until the last chapter because...

The science of self-assurance is the genes. We’ve gone through a lot of work with neuroscientists who are looking at the genes that predetermine whether...

The art of saying no is a very, very important thing to master because you really need to say no so that you can stay in your sweet spot and be doing...

The absolute best advice is that if you’re a recent graduate and you’re trying to figure out where to go is to go to the place that will challenge you...

For an individual to succeed in an environment where management is not creative requires the individual to be very bold, very brave and...

So I guess there’s actually two questions there. The first question is: If you’ve plateaued and you genuinely believe you plateaued because your abilities...

This is an excerpt from Scaling Up Excellence, which Huggy Rao and I published. Our research revealed that scaling is a problem of both more...

79 percent of smartphone owners check their device within 15 minutes of waking up every morning. Perhaps more startling, fully one-third of Americans...

I think at this point it’s difficult to argue against the thesis that we’re living in period of economic change that in retrospect will probably be as significant as the...

Thomas Edison didn’t try ten thousand times before inventing the lightbulb. That notion is false on three different fronts...

I think that innovation and creativity flourish in environments that are messy, that permit mistakes that allow people to step outside of their roles that involve...

When I was a kid, I loved playing with Lego. I went through it by the boxful, dreaming up new things to build. I am sure I didn’t realize it at the time...

One of the best things you can do as a leader is to help people understand their own behavioral patterns. We tend to think of work as a place...