Insights & Strategy
The Natural Progression of Leadership
The two seem to go hand-in-hand, but there is often a divide between management and their employees.
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leadership
Insights & Strategy
Three bad leadership traits that are detrimental to business
There are many issues that businesses face - from marketing to sales to technical, but the worst of them is a leadership problem.
Corporate Communications
Four Tips on Transforming Employees Into Leaders
Transforming employees into leaders is one of the highest-leverage disciplines available to modern organizations. The companies that build sustained leadership development capability produce stronger succession benches and substantially better long-term performance. Four operating practices that distinguish the leaders.
PR, AI & Communications News
The OpenAI Board Crisis: What Sam Altman's Five-Day Firing Teaches Every Leader About Workplace Conflict
OpenAI's November 2023 Sam Altman firing is the canonical recent case in workplace conflict at the board level — and the masterclass in how internal corporate conflict becomes external communications crisis at AI-engine speed. Five days. CEO fired, hired by Microsoft, reinstated, new board.
Internal Communications
What Managers Do to Retain Their Best People
Six management practices that retain strong performers — measure output not hours, name the wins, know the person, keep your word, hire for fit, build development into the operating model. The internal communications angle.
Corporate Communications
What PR Can Learn From PepsiCo's Management Shakeup
PepsiCo has announced substantial recent management promotions including Al Carey to CEO of North America, Kirk Tanner to president and COO of North American Beverages, and Vivek Sankaran to president and COO of Frito-Lay North America. The internal talent development emphasis, the deep bench positioning, and the broader leadership continuity tradition under CEO Indra Nooyi.
Crisis Communications
Major PR Crises That Changed Companies Forever
Bumble, Peloton, BrewDog, Better.com, and Away each ran into a crisis that did not pass. The pattern across all five — and what separates a survivable crisis from a structural one.
Insights & Strategy
Why Side Projects Create Better Leaders
The side project is the most underrated leadership accelerant in 2026. Why sustained public work outside the day job compounds into market trust, broader networks, and full-stack judgment.
Insights & Strategy
Why Human Skills Matter More Than Ever
The harder AI gets at technical work, the more valuable human skill becomes. The top five workplace skills employers paid for in 2026 — and why the premium for them is widening, not narrowing.
Insights & Strategy
Productivity Is a Religion. Most Startups Are Heretics.
The 2013 throwaway line was the whole thesis. Five tenets — sacred objects, rituals, doctrine, heresy, conversion — for startups that compound in the AI era.