Why Do CEOs Like Chipotle’s Overstay Their Welcome?
Chief executives are expected to instinctively know how to lead and when to leave their company. Balancing the tension between leading and leaving requires an executive who has deep empathy of workplace rhythms and a showman’s instinct for timing.How Acting Perfect Undermines Your Ability to Lead
We like our leaders flawed, just like we like ourselves.Building the Cannabis Dream Team: Better People, Better Training, Better Experience, Better Business
The cannabis industry, worth an estimated $7.2 billion in 2016, precariously straddles the recreational and medicinal market. To balance itself, the industry must put a premium on talent management.How to Manage Cannabis Business Leadership In An Increasingly Brighter Spotlight
A critical element of successful leadership is appreciating the spotlight. Leaders are in the spotlight. People are watching them. Closely. Assiduously. They’re the subject of the floodlights’ glare. The aperture is set for widest exposure where all images are...Gimme Shelter: Soaked by Organizational Change
Where you stand when times are turbulent determines where you are when times calm.Cause Célèbre? The Question of Women CEO Compensation
Women CEOs need to be vigilant about their impact.Ford Motors Makes an Inventive Leadership Choice
From office furniture to automobiles? New Ford CEO Jim Hackett has what it takes.A State of Organizational Grace
The two most difficult sentences to utter are “I am sorry” and “You are forgiven.”Like a Boss: Obama as the CEO during Transition
President Barack Obama is traveling a far more benevolent path to the presidency of Donald J. Trump than his fellow Democrats. The president’s pubic mood is one marked by grace and acceptance, while his followers promise to follow Dylan Thomas’ admonition to “not go...Why Renovations have Bypassed Doctoral Program, and What to do about it
Introduction Business schools have successfully remade themselves to be more aligned with the modern business climate. The BBA and MBA are entirely different degrees than they were just a few decades ago. But one business school degree—the PhD—has largely escaped...Reconciling The Practice With The Business of Law
The US legal industry enjoyed double digit growth for five decades until the Great Recession of 2008, when demand for services dropped by 5% and outside counsel spending declined by 11%. It was a serious crisis that led firms to forego annual hourly billable rates...Cause Célèbre? The Unintended Consequences of Highly Paid Women CEO
A recent study by Equilar—an executive compensation firm—reported that female CEOs were better compensated than male CEOs. Of 341 responses from S&P 500 companies, the 17 female CEOS made almost $8M more than the 324 males CEOs. Although the number of female CEOs...Learning from Adversity: One Obstacle at a Time
Adversity happens. Our instinct in the workplace when adversity does arrive is to deny its importance, attribute it to a person or event outside of our control, or, even better, to ignore it. Frustration and failure are unavoidable, so the question for us is what can...The Indispensability Syndrome
Making plans for summer vacation? You’re probably wondering whether you’re too busy to take a week off from work. Maybe you’re thinking that you can, but only if the resort has WiFi. Likely the prospect of being away from the office makes you a bit jittery....Balance of Business and Law
The following was authored by Julia Zemnick Gill, Winner of the 2015 GWSB Student Leadership Essay Competition Law firms have experienced excruciating growing pains over the past decade. The legal industry is one of the largest and most profitable industries in...Pathfinding the Future of Business Schools
By James Bailey (This is the text of a speech delivered to the Conference of Management and Executive Development Programs) It’s a shame that the famed American writer, James Fenimore Cooper, was born about 200 years too early. In his famous Leatherstocking series,...Why the Heroes?
Heroes have been held out as the best of us throughout recorded history. All cultures commit to profiling and proclaiming them. Their stories are our past, present, and future, told through the protagonist’s lens. We research, record, and relate them for a reason....The Stress, the Switch, and the Sources of Renewal
Imagine the eighteen months of General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s life. In her short tenure, GM will have recalled more than 30 million automobiles worldwide. Her firm is besieged by allegations of a caustic culture of carelessness, dysfunctional bureaucracy, warped...The Leadership Vector
The world tends toward continuums. Hot and cold have warm and cool along the way. Big and small have all manner of magnitude in the middle. Even black and white have hues between. Winter, spring, summer, and fall represent varying points along a gradual scale...Great Leaders & Their Environments
Is leadership the product of the person or the place? One camp says it’s the force of the individual. Through a combination of genetics and experience, some are leaders. And leaders act upon circumstances, make the market, revolutionize the industry, jump the trend....Leading the Business of Law Firms
More jokes have been told about lawyers than any other professionals. But the business of law firms is no joke. $250 billion a year in the US, and Washington gets more than its fair share of the bounty. For the last 50 years law firms have done astonishingly well....Finding the Next Generation of Leaders
Economics tells us that supply swiftly follows demand. If we need something, free enterprise ramps up to provide it. The operation of markets is a wonderful thing to behold. Efficient and effective, the system fills voids in a true and timely matter. Markets work...Beneath the Floor: Bringing Best Leadership Practices to Congressional Offices
Congress is often accused of failing to execute the business of the nation either effectively or efficiently. This might be true when it comes to matters of legislation, but I’m not here to critique the machinations of party politics. A critical and yet overlooked...The Law Firm Crisis: Changing Business Models
Law firms are big business, nationally and locally. In the United States, more than $250 billion a year is spent on legal services, and the Washington, D.C. region gets more than its fair share of that amount. The D.C. Bar has almost 50,000 active members, and around...The New Normal
The market for legal services will never be the same. The ongoing recession decreases demand for services and general counsel spending and increases price pressures from competition and clients. The munificence of yesterday is gone. Layoffs, hiring and promotion...Video Lessons
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