Lead From the Heart

Most leaders say they want a high-performing team. Far know how to build one. Ron Friedman, author of Superteams: The Science and Secrets of High-Performing Teams, joins us to explain what separates the two, and why the answer has less to do with talent than with the conditions people work in. Friedman opens his book with a question: Why do so many leaders ignore what research tells us about how people do their best work? His own research on superteams points to a truly profound conclusion. The

As leaders, we often believe our greatest limitations come from a gap in our skills, knowledge or experience. Pam Manfredo Curtis argues that something we may never have considered likely has even greater influence than any of these. In her work as an executive coach and author of The Origin of a Leader: Transforming Family Patterns Into Leadership Power, she holds that roughly 80 percent of how we act, think and present ourselves in the world was shaped in our childhood – by our parents, siblin

For decades, companies have searched for CEOs capable of transforming organizations through their vision, confidence, and force of will. But what if we’ve been looking for the wrong kind of leader? Constantine Alexandrakis is the CEO of Russell Reynolds Associates and the author of The Catalyst CEO. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with many of the world’s largest organizations, giving him a front-row seat to how CEOs are selected, how executive teams function, and why some organizat

Paula Goldman has been thinking about the role AI should play in our workplaces long before the current boom. As Salesforce’s first Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer, she has spent years helping one of the world’s largest technology companies determine how powerful technologies can be developed and deployed in ways that earn trust and serve people. Her work has included building ethical frameworks, establishing safeguards, engaging employees and stakeholders, and helping make ethical decision

Sherry Turkle is one of the most influential voices in the study of how humans relate to technology, and this conversation with her covers new ground on that subject. Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, and a licensed clinical psychologist. For nearly five decades, beginning with the earliest days of personal computing, she has studied the psychological and social co

What happens when the machines we build begin to reshape the way we think about ourselves? For centuries, every major technological revolution has forced humanity to confront the same fundamental question: As our tools become more powerful, what remains uniquely human? Financial Times journalist, Sarah O’Connor has spent years exploring that question. In her remarkable book, We Are Not Machines, she examines how technology has transformed the world of work—from the agricultural revolution to the