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1 month ago | 
kornferry.com | Emily Nagoski |Amelia Nagoski |Dan Ciampa |Michael Watkins
As the holidays gear up, you could zone out in front of Netflix, spin off calories on a Peloton, or take in a football game. Then there are those of you who would prefer to use the time to advance your career, binge-reading leadership books. And not just any book will do-so we asked our own Korn Ferry experts who moonlight as bibliophiles for recommendations from their reading lists.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
entrepreneur.com | Michael Watkins
For entrepreneurs, these are opportunities to engage with potential partners, investors, and collaborators in contexts that encourage more openness. By approaching holiday networking with intention, preparation, and authenticity, you can forge meaningful new relationships that may yield significant long-term benefits. Here are seven strategies to help you make the most of their holiday social efforts. 1.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
smartbrief.com | Michael Watkins
5 min read LeadershipStrategy In today’s business environment, traditional annual planning cycles are increasingly insufficient. Markets shift rapidly, new competitors emerge unexpectedly, and technological disruptions can upend entire industries in a matter of months.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Michael Watkins
As organisations expand their operations internationally and teams become increasingly diverse, leaders often face the challenge of aligning and integrating team members operating in their own functional bubbles. Overcoming these barriers requires leaders to act as translators, bridge builders, and integrators for their teams to align these varying perspectives and foster team effectiveness.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
hbr.org | Michael Watkins
The leaders I teach and coach are diverse in many ways, but they share one thing in common: pressure. Each is grappling with unprecedented economic, technological, political, and organizational change and thus struggling to keep themselves, their teams, and their organizations energized and focused. Many feel close to overwhelm or exhaustion. Mindfulness practices are potent antidotes to such feelings.
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May 6, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michael Watkins
The author is professor of leadership at the IMD Business School and a cofounder of Genesis Advisers, and particularly known for his classic book The First 90 Days.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | Michael Watkins
By Michael Watkins4 minute ReadLeaders can rarely rely on authority to get things done. They must exert influence and build alliances to achieve their objectives. Political savvy is the ability to engage effectively with politics inside and outside your organization. It’s less about Machiavellian maneuvers and more about navigating complex stakeholder environments and intricate webs of relationships.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | Michael Watkins
By Michael Watkins4 minute ReadLeaders can rarely rely on authority to get things done. They must exert influence and build alliances to achieve their objectives. Political savvy is the ability to engage effectively with politics inside and outside your organization. It’s less about Machiavellian maneuvers and more about navigating complex stakeholder environments and intricate webs of relationships.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Cass Sunstein |Tali Sharot |Michael Watkins
Rebecca Boyle is a contributing editor at Scientific American, a contributing writer for Quanta Magazine and The Atlantic, and a frequent contributor at the New York Times, Popular Science, Smithsonian Air & Space, and many other publications. She is the recipient of numerous writing awards throughout her career, and her work has been anthologized multiple times in The Best American Science & Nature Writing.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Watkins |Michiko Kakutani |Denise Hamilton |Eric Siegel
Eric Siegel is a consultant, speaker, and former Columbia University professor. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and executive editor of The Machine Learning Times. At Columbia, he won the Distinguished Faculty award when teaching graduate computer science courses in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Below, Eric shares five key insights from his new book, The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment.
