#leadership

#leadership

His career began at ground level, running his own Italian deli, where he learned firsthand how leadership, operations, and customer trust come together in real time. Long hours and daily problem-solving shaped his belief that strong businesses are built through consistency, structure, and accountability. Those early experiences led Anthony to develop a deeper interest in strategy and financial markets. He began studying trends, analysing patterns, and applying disciplined thinking to decision-making.

When Chris Drury made the trade last season for JT Miller to re-join the New York Rangers, the logic was simple, if mildly flawed. Miller is a fiery personality who doesn't accept losing, and the Rangers were doing plenty of losing. Additionally, Miller came at the cost of an oft-injured third line center, a bottom pair defenseman, and a first round draft pick.

"Seeing Fred Warner and George Kittle out there, Day 1, and how hard they went in the offseason," Purdy said Wednesday in a quiet moment at his locker.

In today's rapidly changing work environment, developing trust among team members is crucial for success. Yet, many organizations struggle to foster an atmosphere of collaboration and understanding, often resulting in communication breakdowns, conflicts, and a decrease in productivity. The inability to trust can be the result of misunderstanding, conflicting values, or misjudging others because they trigger us and remind us of a negative situation or experience in our past.

That reflection is "one of the reasons we sometimes do better a little bit," Dimon added, explaining: "I'm relentless: Details, facts, analysis, no bulllshitting, no meetings after meetings, share all the information-put it on the table, put the dead cats on the table-go through system by system by system, get out on the road, visit other companies, they all do things better than you."

A little bit about myself. In my previous life, I was staff platform engineering. I focused a lot of development engineering and everything that basically was the sociotechnical aspect of our technical work. I recently was working as a CTO and co-founder of a startup, and nowadays I'm just doing advisory roles and a little bit of consulting while trying to think about the next big thing. Yes, so happy to be talking with you, Shane.

"Winning matters most when it helps others win, too."

Denise Kvapil has built her career in environments where decisions are immediate, outcomes are measurable, and accountability is non‑negotiable. From emergency departments to senior executive roles, she has led with a singular conviction: results matter more than rhetoric. "I define success by patient outcomes," she says. "If patients do better and teams grow stronger, then the leadership is working." That philosophy has guided her ascent through clinical practice, hospital operations, and executive leadership across complex healthcare systems.

"It didn't matter if it was March, March was really important because March led to April," he added. "April was really important because it led to May and so-forth all the way up to the start of the season, all the way up to the final games of the season to prepare us for the playoffs and then if we were fortunate enough to make it to the last game, we were so prepared because every day was important."

Many women begin the year with broad ambitions: Do more. Progress faster. Lead better. But without a clear career plan, it is easy to get caught in urgency, competing priorities, and other people's agendas.A strong start to the year is not about doing everything at once. It's about building a focused, realistic plan that aligns with your goals, values, and current season of life.This post outlines a step-by-step approach to planning your career for 2026 so that you can move with clarity rather than pressure.

This became one of the defining moments of my career, culminating in a $4.4 billion transaction to take SolarWinds private with Turn/River Capital. These negotiations exercised my leadership principles, sharpened my judgment under pressure, and expanded my experiences. Negotiations have always been a part of life. Whether it involves your teenager's curfew, your team's priorities, or your board and the future, every negotiation comes down to the same vital tenets: credibility, balance, stamina, and persistence.

A "work jerk" isn't just someone who expects perfection. It's the high achiever whose nervous system runs at lava-like temperatures, who's chronically stressed, and demonstrates urgency as a personality trait. It looks like hair-trigger impatience, micromanaging, sharp feedback, and an automatic reflex to see others as obstacles rather than partners. Work jerk behaviors teach people at work to focus their energy on managing you and your reactions instead of doing good work.

Most of us were raised to think that smart people always know the right answer. From gold stars in grade school to performance reviews in the office, we're rewarded for certainty. Yet as Bidhan ("Bobby") Parmar, professor at the UVA Darden School of Business, argues in his new book, Radical Doubt, clinging to certainty is precisely what derails us when the stakes are highest. "The only thing that spoon-feeding teaches us," he quips, "is the shape of a spoon".

Welcome to HBR On Leadership. These episodes are case studies and conversations with the world's top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. I'm HBR senior editor and producer Amanda Kersey. As a leader, noticing where your attention goes is a skill that affects your judgment, learning, listening-basically every aspect of how you think and show up.

"It just felt like falling off a cliff," Graham, now the founder of Glue Club, said in a recent interview on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast. "Taking risks, accepting the terrible fall and that experience of falling has been more than worth it." Graham described the experience as part of what she calls the "J-curve" - a career trajectory where a risky move leads to an initial drop before eventually producing outsized gains. Visually, she describes it as standing on a ledge, stepping off, sinking briefly, and then rising far higher than where you started - just like the shape of the letter J.

Everyone at the London Stadium as well as millions around the world saw the criticism, abuse and ridicule Slaven Bilic was subjected to last Friday night as we recorded a superb win over West Ham [then managed by Bilic]. What they didn't witness was that same man standing outside the Brighton dressing room afterwards, waiting for each and every one of our players and coaches to offer congratulations and a warm handshake.

La Placita in East San Jose's Mayfair neighborhood was one of those projects. When we acquired the long-neglected, 28,000-square-foot building three years ago, it stood as a symbol of disinvestment along the Alum Rock corridor. What we saw instead was possibility - a future cultural anchor that could hold space for arts and culture, a community health clinic and opportunities for local businesses to grow and thrive.

In his recent New Year's Day message, the PM promised to "defeat the decline and division offered by others" and insisted 2026 would see people feel "positive change" in their lives. Speaking to the BBC, Sir Keir said: "I was elected in 2024 with a five-year mandate to change the country, and that's what I intend to do, to be faithful to that mandate."

At this year's Web Summit in Lisbon, Hayden Brown, president and CEO of Upwork, was asked which leadership skills are most in demand today. Her answer was immediate: The demand for soft skills is rising. As AI algorithms increasingly take over routine tasks, the qualities that can't be automated-communication clarity, the ability to work effectively with people, and conflict-resolution skills-are becoming essential for career growth.

In making an idea together, you are trying to build a shared reality. We are both building a non-existent thing. Because improvisers are creating something out of nothing, they are forced to listen to each other, to pay attention, in a deeper way than in their ordinary lives. People can make assumptions and skim over details in their day-to-day lives, but while improvising, they have to catch every word and even catch details that go beyond their partner's words.

In the dressing room, Harry Kane is the one who took over Thomas Müller's role as the pep talker before games. The Englishman often speaks the last words to the team before kick-off, focusing mainly on showing mentality and not being afraid to go into duels. For example, before the game against Hoffenheim on September 20, Kane told his teammates: "These are the games in which the leagues are decided. You have to win these games. We can't think it will all come easily" - Bayern won that game 4-1 [@SPORTBILD]

Your tarot card for New Year's Day is the Queen of Wands, which represents sparkly, positive qualities like confidence, passion, charisma, optimism, and determination. This one's for everyone who celebrated exactly how they wanted to last night. Did you dance 'til dawn? Kiss your date at midnight? Go to bed by nine? Queen energy means following your own path.