4 min readQuick note before this week's issue: I recently sat down with my son and co-author, Bryan McKinney, for a conversation with Michael Levitt on the Breakfast Leadership Show. It's live now, and it ties closely into what follows below. After a recent round of conversations with leaders across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America, a […]

2 min readCross-cultural leadership is often measured the wrong way. Boards and selection committees look at passport stamps, years abroad, and the number of markets on a resume. Those things matter, but they are not the whole story. The real differentiator is something quieter: how much complexity a leader can hold without collapsing into oversimplification, defensiveness, or […]

5 min readHiring for agility is no longer optional. A few weeks ago, I sat with a CEO who was frustrated that an apparently perfect hire could not keep up with the pace of change. “We hired someone with exactly the background we thought we needed,” he said. “They’d done this job before, in our industry, at […]