You cannot have an execution culture without robust dialogue - one that brings reality to the surface through openness, candor, and informal...

Leaders who execute focus on a very few clear priorities that everyone can grasp. Why just a few? First, anybody who thinks through the logi...

Here are the kinds of things you'll hear truly confident people say. 1. "I wouldn't worry about it." Go to a confident fri...

You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves. Marcus Aurelius Me...

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. Lyndon B. Johnson Historical Highlights: The First Televis...

Our Friday merchandising meeting is unique to retailing as far as I can tell. Here we have all these regional managers who have been out in ...

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner sees "fewer things done better" as the  most powerful mechanism for leadership. When he took the reins o...

Financial Times : A frequent argument is that Germans are not capable of reforming themselves. Angela Merkel : I would say this is utter non...

The essence of digital transformation is to become a data-driven organization, ensuring that key decisions, actions, and processes are stron...

It’s important to be right at the end of a meeting, not at the beginning. If you embrace that mind-set, you’ll do a lot less talking in meet...

If you haven’t gotten serious about tightening up your calendar, now is the time to start. Do you really need all those meetings? Are there ...

Specifying ground rules signals to participants that you intend to keep things moving efficiently. Reassert that you’re committed to beginni...

Set one key ground rule: “Silence denotes agreement” or “qui tacet consentire videtur,” as it’s been known for centuries. These three words ...

How many people should you actually invite [to a meeting]? There are no hard and fast rules, but in principle, a small meeting is best to ac...

For a meeting to be useful, you have to have the right people — and only the right people — in the room. With too many attendees, you may ha...

 …there are only three functional purposes for having a business meeting: 1. To inform and bring people up to speed. 2. To seek input from p...

End the meeting with a plus/delta. If your team meets regularly, two questions form a simple continuous improvement process: What did we do ...

“If you’re already meeting for worthwhile topics, you can do a quick update,” says Axtell . You might say at the end, Is there anything that...

  Aaron De Smet ,  Caitlin Hewes ,  Mengwei Luo ,  J.R. Maxwell  and  Patrick Simon “ If we’re all so busy, why isn’t anything getting done?...

“Let’s schedule a meeting” has become the universal default response to most business issues. Not sure what to do on a project? Let’s schedu...