You’re Fakin’ the Funk
July 22, 2026
Why executive teams become passive-aggressive instead of high trust One of the clearest signs of dysfunction on an executive team isn’t open conflict. It’s passive-aggression.
Why executive teams become passive-aggressive instead of high trust One of the clearest signs of dysfunction on an executive team isn’t open conflict. It’s passive-aggression.
What are your employees afraid to tell you? The most dangerous problems in any organization are rarely the loud ones. The real risk is the
Do your best people trust you, or are they just tolerating you? One of the most dangerous things in leadership is mistaking silence for trust.
Why Your Retention Problem is not an HR Problem — It’s a Leadership Problem Let me tell you something I learned the hard way, in
The Conversation Most Leaders Never Hear Several years ago, I was having a conversation with a CEO about leadership succession. We were discussing a group
Influence Means Different Things at Different Stages of Leadership Several years ago, I was facilitating a leadership session for a group of senior executives when
What Criteria Are Being Used to Evaluate You That Nobody Told You About? The Questions Many Executives Never Think to Ask Throughout my career, I
