Blog
- The Post Covid19 CoS, Pt. 2: Knowing What’s Really Going On When You’re Not Colocated (6/6/2020) - Resources to help you lead or navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on your workplace.
- The Post Covid19 CoS, Pt. 1: Reading The Room When There Is No Room (5/26/2020) - Resources to help you lead or navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on your workplace.
- For Such A Time As This: Resources for Chiefs of Staff During Covid-19 (5/3/2020) - Resources to help you lead or navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on your workplace.
- Playing Chess, Not Checkers: Intuit’s Brad Smith on the Value of a Chief of Staff Role (5/3/2020) - You've heard me talk about the chief of staff role, but what about the CEO's perspective on the value it can bring? I interview Intuit's Chairman and former CEO, Brad Smith.
- Leading with Power as Chief of Staff (1/30/2020) - Chiefs of staff are not always comfortable weilding power, but power is an essential tool in your tool kit. You ignore it at your - and your exec's - peril.
- Why Simplifying Isn’t Always The Best Answer to Complexity (6/4/2019) - Guest Aaron Rinehard argues that in an increasingly complex world, simplifying isn’t always the best way for leadership teams to deal with complexity.
- Congrats! You’ve been asked to set up a comms function – now what? (6/4/2019) - Chiefs of staff in just about every organization play a role in executive communications, but what if you're asked to set it up a comms team from scratch?
- Is Your Exec Managing Too Many Direct Reports? (6/4/2019) - Is your exec managing too many direct reports? How would you know? Explore some different approaches to span of control.
- What Do Phases of Matter Have To Do With The Chief of Staff’s Role in Leading Change? (4/29/2019) - External or internal pressure drives change, but people do their jobs in a current state. How can you map the transition and most effectively lead change?
- The Sound of Silence: Do Silent Meetings Work? (4/19/2019) - Seems like every week you hear about another organization who uses so-called “silent meetings,” but do they work?