Why Growing a Personal Brand Matters A strong personal brand is the shortcut people use to understand who you are, what you stand for, and why your work is valuable. It shapes first impressions before you enter a room, it travels with your name i...| RSS Feed
By Matthew Brown and Liam McKervey| The Research Culture Blog
Few human abilities hold more power than the ability to speak. For leaders, one of the most meaningful responsibilities is knowing when and how to use that power. As an orator once said, “If you want to test a man's character, give him power.” ...| RSS Feed
Recent search trends reveal that leaders are increasingly seeking guidance on merging trust, AI literacy, and adaptive culture. Queries such as “cultivating trust in leadership” and “ethical AI leadership” have surged across search engines in recent ...| RSS Feed
Transparent leadership builds trust and fuels innovation in 2025. Learn actionable habits that boost engagement and help your team outperform competitors.| MSI Business Leadership Council
By Fred Hale | The Research Culture Blog
Setting Expectations Isn’t Enough: A Leadership Lesson from History and Life In today’s corporate culture, setting expectations often feels like a sacred mantra, repeated endlessly as the key to success. But what if the real challenge isn’t jus...| RSS Feed
Many are wondering when hiring and consulting will return to normal, but the reduced hiring and corporate spending we’re seeing is not just a cyclical downturn that will reverse once the economy picks up. Traditional treasury functions (cash management, liquidity planning, growth and investing...| Viktor Cessan | Enterprise Agile & Product Coach
By Lydia Klimecki| The Research Culture Blog
Letting go may sound graceful in theory, but in practice, it’s more like peeling back layers of identity that you’ve worn for years. I didn’t just step away from a job; I stepped away from the version of myself that believed I had to prove myself con...| RSS Feed
Welcome back to Lead Anew: Insights and Growth. This edition is about reclaiming something many of us lose along the way: our voice. For a long time, I stayed quiet in spaces where I should have spoken up, especially in moments when I doubted whether...| RSS Feed
Defining the desired outcome and what constitutes success in measurable terms helps stakeholders align their actions and priorities, ensuring that every effort is geared toward achieving this shared vision. The post Vision Before Strategy: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Defining Success appeared first on Blue Avocado.| Blue Avocado
"Move fast and break things." This phrase, made famous by Mark Zuckerberg, has become synonymous with the modern innovation mindset. Yet in many workplaces, it's still more of a slogan than a reality. Risk-taking is often discouraged, ...| RSS Feed
Managing people isn’t easy. Everyone on your team brings their own personality, work style, and ambitions. That’s why a one-size-fits-all approach never works. Being an effective leader means navigating these differences while building trust, fosteri...| RSS Feed
Community Article posted by Kimberly Weisner about The Value Was Always There | June 1, 2025 on MSI Business Leadership Council.| MSI Business Leadership Council
Community Article posted by Kimberly Weisner about The Power of Starting Over | May 25, 2025 on MSI Business Leadership Council.| MSI Business Leadership Council
A few years ago, I worked under two managers at the same company. One was the kind of leader who inspired people without trying. You wanted to give your best because you knew she had your back. She asked questions, listened carefully, and gave clear...| RSS Feed
Wondering how many leadership styles exist? Discover the most widely recognized types of leadership, how they differ, and which one fits your personality or workplace best.| MSI Business Leadership Council
Workplace conflicts are inevitable, affecting nearly 85% of employees at some point in their careers. When tensions rise between employees... The post How to Handle Conflict with a Manager appeared first on Pollack Peacebuilding Systems.| Pollack Peacebuilding Systems
The client’s request seemed impossible: “We need to modernize our entire legacy system, build three new products, and cut our engineering spend by 40%—all within six months.” Five years ago, I would have gently explained the iron triangle of software development—you can have it fast, good, or cheap, pick two. Today, through my work with […]| rajiv.com
The newsroom was eerily quiet. Where once the cacophony of ringing phones, clacking keyboards, and urgent conversations filled the air, now only the soft hum of servers remained. But this wasn’t a story of decline—it was transformation. As I walked through the modernized newsroom at a major media company last month, I watched a single […]| rajiv.com
Last week, I watched an AI agent debug a production issue, write a fix, create comprehensive tests, and deploy the solution—all while the product and tech leader was hanging out with the team discu…| rajiv.com
Community Article posted by Ryan Leach, CTS, CSM, CSS about Remote Workforce, Close Problems on MSI Business Leadership Council.| MSI Business Leadership Council
Most of us think big changes move the needle. What if I told you it's often the tiniest tweaks that spark the biggest leaps? Imagine arriving five minutes early to your next team meeting. You settle in, grab a coffee, and when discussion begins...| RSS Feed
Strategic philanthropists, big bettors, and effective altruists all lionize the ability to measure problem-solving strategies. But what exactly do they think they are observing when they diagnose a problem? What gives them the confidence to pursue the root cause they think they see? Why privilege one strategy when there are many others at hand?| Blue Avocado
By Yasmine Rhoseyn and Eirini Triantafyllou| The Research Culture Blog
Adopting collective leadership can help your nonprofit create a more inclusive, efficient, and flexible organizational structure.| Blue Avocado
Welcome to the Leadership Styles Training Program Leadership is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Effective leaders understand that different situations, teams, and goals require different leadership styles. This training program is designed...| RSS Feed
By Marcus Munafò Marcus is Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research Culture at the University of Bristol and incoming Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at the University of Bath. He leads on research culture activity across the university, providing direction and vision, working across the institutional landscape, and identifying key challenges and opportunities. He is also institutional […]| The Research Culture Blog
Discover how the G.R.O.W. model—Goal, Reality, Options, Wrap-Up—can enhance your leadership approach by driving clarity, accountability, and team development in everyday conversations.| MSI Business Leadership Council
A sudden leadership transition can leave a nonprofit scrambling to survive. Don't leave your mission to chance — plan for the future today.| Blue Avocado
There’s a reason Special Forces bypass traditional military hierarchy, and it’s the same reason high-performing tech teams should too. Being French and having an interest in organizational structures and cultures, it was logical that I ended up learning about how the French military is set up. I spent time learning about how the French Special| Code Capsule | A blog by Emmanuel Goossaert
In today's changing world, adding organizational values into the Matrix Map is crucial for nonprofits to demonstrate the impact of funding.| Blue Avocado
Leadership means something different to everyone, and nonprofits are no exception. But do these different definitions of leadership reflect the reality of the world we live in?| Blue Avocado
Everyone assumes the principal runs the school, but ask any teacher and they’ll tell you: it’s the school secretary who’s the true mastermind behind the scenes. You’re the one who keeps everything on track, from organizing schedules to handling the day-to-day chaos. Today, we want to acknowledge your vital role in our school’s success. You …| Teaching Expertise
As business leaders face unprecedented changes in 2025, staying ahead requires agility, innovation, and a relentless commitment to growth. The global| Mario Peshev
With proper planning, attention, and openness to change, an interim ED can overcome challenges that can derail a nonprofit’s best-laid plans.| Blue Avocado
Checks and balances can be difficult when your nonprofit isn't big. Discover five internal controls for the very small nonprofit.| Blue Avocado
With some creative thinking, a nonprofit’s board member was able to forge a nonprofit partnership that advanced two causes that she cared deeply about.| Blue Avocado
A nonprofit strategic planning process that includes human factors that improves the chances of successfully implementing the plan.| Blue Avocado
Developing and sustaining a motivated, productive, and highly engaged workforce means your employees must be measured on how they demonstrate the organization’s values.| Blue Avocado
DEIB efforts that are aligned with the company’s values, built on trust, and supported by leaders help bring the business to greater success.| Great Place To Work Philippines
The Challenge: Role Complexity and Overwhelm Following a reorganization at one of my clients, various formal and informal leadership roles were consolidated into a new position—the Engineering Manager. This role encompassed a wide range of responsibilities, from recruitment and career development to handling expenses, internal mobility, product and value creation, collaboration and processes, and technology. The large scale of the organization, along with technical interdependencies between...| Context specific agile, product, and systems coaching – I do Agile and Orga...
Controversial topics are topics that elicit strong emotions, have little or no effort invested into resolution, and unequal participation. Whether you’re a coach or manager, recognizing controversial topics is crucial because dealing with controversial topics is expensive, difficult, and painful to all involved parties. But because controversial topics are an inherent aspect of working in large product and tech companies, where diverse teams and multiple layers of leadership coexist, you ne...| Context specific agile, product, and systems coaching – I do Agile and Orga...
At work, and in society, we use “Voice”, and “Exit” to create change. “Voice” is when you try to change a system from within, “Exit” is when you try to change a system by creating a new system that replaces the old system. People mass-leaving companies, or countries, or currencies, taking their business elsewhere, deleting their Facebook accounts, shifting to other search engines than google, are examples of “Exit”. People demonstrating through walk-outs, changing how they...| Context specific agile, product, and systems coaching – I do Agile and Orga...
When Charles Darwin studied the animals on the Galapagos islands, he found that finches had adapted to their circumstances and developed distinct traits. Some Finches had evolved to eat seeds, some to spear insects, and eat cactus fruit and seeds. They evolved together with their environment over a very long period of time. Their beaks have high utility in their contexts yet if you moved a Ground Finch to an environment where the main source of food were cactus, that finch might starve, or at...| Context specific agile, product, and systems coaching – I do Agile and Orga...
Psychological safety in the workplace is a hot topic, and that’s a good thing. When psychological safety increases, it improves motivation, quality of life, and performance—and who doesn’t want that? I imagine that psychological safety is something you’ve heard a lot about. And that’s great. It’s very important after all. But what’s less great is that it’s often just the management aspect that gets talked about. Psychological safety in the workplace is really about so much mor...| Context specific agile, product, and systems coaching – I do Agile and Orga...
An overview of green jobs and sustainability roles for hiring managers and professionals within the marketing, creative, and digital fields.| Celarity
An overview of nine of the best roles to break into the Marketing and Creative fields for job seekers, managers, and professionals.| Celarity
Explore 2024's top marketing trends, including Generative AI, explosive growth in the green energy space, data privacy, and labor shifts!| Celarity
Tips, advice, and guidance on navigating a promotion journey as a Marketing, Creative, or Digital professional.| Celarity
Explore the complexities of engineering management and the ideal number of reports for success.| Code Capsule | A blog by Emmanuel Goossaert
You asked, and we’re answering. To guide you through the twists and turns of AI in the workplace, we teamed up with our very own AI extraordinaires, John| Celarity
Are you an aspiring leader? Here are the signs you’re ready for a leadership role and tips for starting the conversation with your manager.| Celarity
Solution-focused coaching is a way of using therapy techniques in order to lead better conversations with direct reports and peers at work.| Code Capsule | A blog by Emmanuel Goossaert