Fear is an unavoidable companion of leadership. It appears whenever leaders confront uncertainty, disruption, or decline in a core business. What distinguishes effective leaders is not the absence of fear, but their ability
One underappreciated responsibility of public-company leadership is not simply setting ambitious goals, but matching those goals to what an organization can realistically achieve. Leaders must ensure that demands on employees do not exceed
Kindness is often treated as a personal virtue rather than a leadership discipline. In business, it is frequently dismissed as soft, naïve, or incompatible with hard decisions. My experience leading Pitney Bowes suggests
When we talk about population health, we usually think of physicians, insurers, hospitals, or public policy. Yet for employed adults, few forces influence health more directly than the CEO. Chief executives design the
Why CEOs, not HR or insurers, who want to maximize shareholder and customer value must take charge of employee health and healthcare costs Too many capable leaders defer to “experts,” especially in technical
For more than 37 years, I have been in leadership, Board, investor, advisory, and advocacy roles focused on enhancing the critical role employers play in population health. Public health researchers like Sir Michael