Grading the importance of various initiatives in an environment of finite resources is a primary test of leadership. Derek Lidow " A Be...

To avoid priority proliferation, managers can inject discipline into the prioritization process by making choices more explicitly and system...

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...

Many people regard execution as detail work that's beneath the dignity of a business leader. That's wrong. To the contrary, it's...

How often do you come home exhausted from work, as if all the energy has been drained right out of you? How do you feel about performing the...

What should organizations launching multiple change programs do differently? First and foremost, they should take the holistic view. The top...

Most prescriptions for organizational change have focused on how to launch a single change initiative. This made sense in a stable world in ...

Prioritized change means leaders show employees where to invest their energy by communicating their backlog of priorities, including change ...

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’...

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

Shopify will be eliminating all recurring meetings involving more than two people in a bid to give employees more time to work on other task...

“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” ― Robert Brault Growth requires you to lose something.   ...

“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...

Do you know what matters to you today? Recently I spent time with 1,200 senior business leaders. During our discussion, I asked these leader...

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

The way of the Nonessentialist is to go big on everything: to try to do it all, have it all, fit it all in. The Nonessentialist operates und...

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...