Alison:  Talk about navigating the Covid-19 crisis and racial reckoning. How did you work with the players, the teams, and NBA management on...

Mind-sets ingrained by past management practices remain ingrained far beyond the existence of the practices that formed them, even when new ...

Choose not to be harmed – and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed – and you haven’t been. Marcus Aurelius Meditations by Marcus Aurel...

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and...

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

Here’s a shocker: your people already know you have flaws! So if you make a mistake, admit it. If you need help, ask for it. When leaders ad...

I believe all politics is personal, because at bottom, politics depends on trust, and unless you can establish a personal relationship, it...

Trust is the coin of the realm for creating the harmony, speed, and teamwork to achieve success at the lowest cost… Yet it’s not enough to t...

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; hi...

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.  Benjamin Franklin  Autobi...

Accountability breeds response-ability . Commitment and involvement produce change. In training executives, we use a step-by-step, natural, ...

THE BETTER ARGUMENTS PROJECT—a civic initiative founded by Allstate, The Aspen Institute, Facing History and Ourselves, and the Bezos Family...

If Grameen was to work, we knew we had to trust our clients. From day one, we knew that there would be no room for policing in our system...

If you can’t find a few extra hours to mentor and develop your direct reports, a leadership role may not be right for you. Time spent in ...

Hearing the phrase “you need to talk to your people” can invoke a feeling of dread in any manager. But when managers have frequent one-on...

Many people, as they go through life, focus mainly on success. To them, success is represented by wealth, recognition, and power and stat...

Todd Davis , serves as the chief people officer for FranklinCovey and is the author of the new book Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Bu...

Turning gratitude into a daily practice isn’t on the radar of enough of today’s business leaders, despite the immeasurable professional a...

Belichick strongly believes you must see your team not just as players, per se, but as people who have full, three-dimensional, and oft...

"The only sign we have in the locker room is from 'The Art of War.' 'Every battle is won before it is fought,'"...