What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? | Part 5: Being “In the Zone”

“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.”  — Karl Kraus As I mentioned in my last blog, every culture seems to fit into one of five categories, which I’ve characterized as Levels 1 to 5. Since we’ve talked about the first three in earlier blogs, … Read more

What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? | Part 4: What If Our Culture Could Change?

This is part of an ongoing series of blogs based on the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? Part 4 — What If Our Culture Could Change? “If we are to preserve (our) culture, we must continue to create it.” — Johan … Read more

What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? | Part 3: What Do We Do With a Broken Culture?

This is part of an ongoing series of blogs based on the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. “While your culture should drive decision-making throughout the organization, consider it a North Star, not a straitjacket.” —  Erin Meyer in the Harvard Business Review, July-August 2024 issue. What Do We Do … Read more

What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? | Part 2: We Paid the Price

This is part of an ongoing series of blogs based on the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? | Part 2: We Paid the Price “We paid the price for valuing competence more than character.” — General (retired) Martin Dempsey, 18th … Read more

What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? | Part 1: Being Raised in the Culture of Compliance

This is the latest entry in a series of blogs based on the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? | Part 1: Being Raised in the Culture of Compliance I grew up in the 1950s and 60s, when “children were expected … Read more

What are the Impacts? | Part 2: The Dangers of Thinking Information Equals Communication

This is the latest entry in a series of blogs based on the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. All too often, we mistakenly believe that sharing information alone is communicating. (We discussed this in a recent blog post: The Communication Desert.) Technology is feeding self-deception. Our warp-speed technology growth … Read more