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...

Emily Cole believes being Fans First starts with just "being a good human." She highlights how coaching good behavior starts durin...

A nudge is an intervention that maintains freedom of choice but steers people in a particular direction. A tax isn’t a nudge. A subsidy isn’...

When I am writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced I'm serious and says 'Okay, Okay. I'll come. Maya Ange...

Concentrate every minute like a Roman – like a man – on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willing...

You and Larry David wrote Seinfeld together, without a traditional writers’ room, and burnout was one reason you stopped. Was there a more s...

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not...

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

The Latin root of the word decision - cis or cid - literally means "to cut" or "to kill."  You can see this in the words...

  Jack Dorsey is best known as the creator of Twitter and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. His Essentialist app...

  When people ask us to do something, we can confuse the request with our relationship with them. Sometimes they seem so interconnected, we ...

Peter Drucker , in my view the father of modern management  thinking, was also a master of the art of the graceful no. When Mihaly Csikszent...

  I did not set out to write a chapter about courage. But the deeper I have looked at the subject of Essentialism the more clearly I have se...

I once attended an event where Herb [Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines ] was interviewed about his business strategy . It was a great talk...

The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately dist...

Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it's about how to get the right  things done. It doesn't mean just doing less...

  The leader as an architect: How Kennedy developed a structural blueprint of core connections via four sensegiving actions.  Inductive theo...

It can be difficult to choose the right quest. Should the company expand into new regions, get closer to customers, innovate with more partn...

When you start telling a story to a friend or colleague, you automatically start thinking about all the different pieces you want to remembe...

Some years ago in our meetinghouse in Darmstadt, Germany, a group of brethren was asked to move a grand piano from the chapel to the adjoini...