Three strategies for how to make sure our stories aim at the right target and break through to our audience.

Lessons from Joseph McCormack’s book Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less on how we might improve our approach to enable more concise communications.

What we can learn from Kevin Durant and other Olympians on leadership.

Cultural norms and our biases can distort the information coming into our minds, leading us to write bad “headlines” about what we’re seeing. 

Comparing the leadership insights from NBA champion coach Phil Jackson to other leading thinkers.

Cal Newport argues that we should introduce far more robust processes to knowledge work to “dramatically increase performance and make the work much less draining.”

By changing one’s approach to brainstorming—focusing more on questions than answers—leaders can yield more instructive insights.

When leaders stop making decisions, it can enable otherwise passive followers to become proactive leaders. These lessons from David Marquet and Turn the Ship Around! show us the way.

A framework for preparing for communications, inspired by Let the Story Do the Work by Esther Choy.

Lessons from Multipliers by Liz Wiseman on putting yourself in a leadership straitjacket to change behaviors.