Every issue of Exec Edge, from day one. Sharp thinking for leaders, one idea at a time.
Three checks to tell a hard first year of managing from being in the wrong job.
Four questions that take retrospectives from complaint to root cause to action.
Four rules for an onboarding buddy system that takes about six hours.
A one-hour quarterly reset: three priorities, a stop-doing list and direction for 90 days.
When to trust your gut vs the data, based on Kahneman and Klein’s two conditions.
A six-question scorecard to test whether you can win in a new market (Target Canada).
How to explain a missed quarter to the board and rebuild trust in your forecast.
A 12-hour eating and caffeine plan timed around your hardest thinking work.
Build a personal board of advisors with five key seats and spot who is missing.
Three questions before rehiring a boomerang employee.
Five 1:1 questions that reveal whether each person is really getting more done with AI.
The four decisions a CEO should never delegate and how to avoid becoming the bottleneck.