It sounds like a rom-com opening. Unfortunately, it’s a pattern we’ve all experienced at work. The person you’re asked to spearhead a project with becomes a real stick in the mud. Maybe their input is delaying progress, or they’re lacking the creativity the work requires. Maybe you feel like they’re doing the bare minimum or […]
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A few weeks before Christmas in the US, HBO bought the rights to a Canadian adaptation of the romance novel Heated Rivalry. They did almost no promotion — there was no time — and yet this show was quickly everywhere. It spread because people talked about it. Viewers were posting clips, imploring their friends to
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For years, leadership potential revealed itself in the work; not just in the outcomes but in how someone got there. You could see it in how they framed a messy problem, how they worked through imperfect data, how they stayed steady when things got murky. You could watch their reasoning unfold in real time. You
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In the early 2000s, leadership development meant a three-day, in-person program. By 2020, we’d gone fully virtual—still classroom-based, just online, with a few learning licenses sprinkled in. Fast-forward to late 2024, when we asked leaders where they most often turned for learning… It was reels, podcasts, and audiobooks—consumed through AirPods and phones, anytime, anywhere. So how
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