What to Do When Your Senior Role Feels Totally Unsustainable

Many senior leaders are quietly reaching the same conclusion: the top jobs they've spent decades working toward no longer feel sustainable. In recent years, the go-to advice for addressing executive burnout has been to encourage leaders to build greater resilience. But resilience—the ability to adapt to adversity—breaks down when adversity becomes the norm. Exhausted executives need a new blueprint. Here are concrete strategies for how to realign your role with your own strengths, purpose, and energy.

4 Strategies to Guide Your Team Through a Departmental Transition

Whether initiated by strategic realignment, leadership changes, or market demands, departmental transitions test a leader's mettle. In this article, the authors offer four strategies to guide your team through a departmental transition while maintaining morale, productivity, and cohesion: 1) Communicate the “why” clearly and authentically. 2) Acknowledge the emotional impact. 3) Cultivate ownership and involvement. 4) Prepare your team for future changes.

3 Ways Humility Can Undermine Your Leadership

Humble leadership is characterized by a willingness to admit a mistake or when you don't know something, a tendency to share credit for successes, and an appreciation for others' contributions. This leadership style is built on self-awareness, respect for others, and a focus on collective over individual success. But being overly humble can potentially diminish your perceived authority in three ways. The author offers advice on how to navigate these challenges while preserving the benefits of this leadership style.

The hidden creativity killer lurking in your organization

Organizations talk about wanting innovation, but most aren't willing to create the right conditions for it. We celebrate disruptors, bold thinkers, and game-changing ideas—but the way most organizations actually run makes creativity nearly impossible. Leaders ask, “How do we encourage creativity?” But the real question is: “How do we keep it alive in a world that values efficiency over exploration?”

Why your leadership team needs creatives, not just strategists

For decades, corporate leadership has been dominated by analytical prowess. Ascending the corporate ladder often meant demonstrating value through meticulous spreadsheets, precise forecasts, and detailed execution plans. Vision was acknowledged, but only when accompanied by a comprehensive road map. This paradigm, however, is shifting.

How to reclaim your joy, curiosity, and creativity in the workplace

In the 2018 comedy Tag, a group of childhood friends maintains an offbeat line of connection over 30 years of friendship: the same game of tag, played through weddings, boardrooms, and hospital visits. It's absurd and touching all at once. But the line that echoes throughout the film is where the real wisdom lies: “We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

To thrive in the age of AI, don't reinvent yourself. Try this instead

At SXSW this year, artificial intelligence was everywhere. Every panel. Every hallway conversation. Every prediction about the future of work seemed to revolve around the same question: How do we keep up? But the moment that stayed with me wasn't about AI at all; it was reconnecting with the world of Jack Johnson. He took the stage not just as a “musician,” but as something far more compelling: a fully integrated human being.

This career strategy helps you stand out without starting over

In a time when hiring has slowed dramatically, layoffs have become the norm, and AI has flattened early differentiation, even job titles have blurred. The problem is that capable, experienced people increasingly describe feeling stalled, unseen, or interchangeable in today's workforce. Consider the current landscape of advice to understand the dilemma. People are encouraged to stand out, but without guidance on how to do so. They're told to pick a lane and niche down, while careers are becoming more nonlinear. What's missing is a true strategy that reflects how work actually functions today.

AI is replacing creativity with ‘average'

Over the past year, a quiet shift has been unfolding across the internet. A growing wave of AI-generated news and content sites has flooded search results. Many of them are technically accurate, cleanly written, and structurally sound, yet they feel strangely interchangeable. A recent analysis by NewsGuard identified more than 1,000 AI-driven content farms producing articles at scale, often without original reporting, perspective, or voice. The information is there. But something essential is missing. It is not accuracy or clarity; it is a point of view.