David Burkus is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five books on leadership and teamwork.
Most leaders are pretty good at the work. The strategy sessions, the project reviews, the performance metrics. Those are manageable. What keeps leaders up at night isn’t the work itself. It’s the difficult conversations about […]
A leadership retreat can be one of the costliest meetings your organization will hold all year—and one of the most likely to underperform. A survey from MIT Sloan found that only 34 percent of executive […]
When we picture leadership, we almost always picture the same thing: someone confident, charismatic, outgoing—someone who walks into a room and commands attention. For decades, that image has sent a quiet but damaging message to […]
Change is constant. And for leaders, that means change management isn’t a skill you tap into once—it’s something you do every day. But most of the advice on navigating change is either overly rigid or […]
If you want a high-performing team, you need more than talent and goals—you need trust, respect, and the freedom to speak up. In short: you need psychological safety. But “psychological safety” isn’t just a buzzword. […]
We live in a time where it’s never been easier to get things done—and yet, it’s never felt harder to actually do it. The modern workplace is filled with tools meant to boost productivity: email, […]
