Lessons in leadership, business, performance, and success from Adam’s conversations with thousands of leaders, thought leaders, and newsmakers
I have spent years interviewing more than 500 of America’s top CEOs, founders, and senior leaders, and one theme keeps surfacing over and over again: culture is the thing that
I have had the opportunity to speak with a wide range of leaders through my Thirty Minute Mentors podcast: CEOs, founders, military leaders, Olympic athletes, and executives from across industries.
Leadership looks orderly from a distance. Strategy decks align. Forecasts reconcile. The logic behind major decisions appears coherent when viewed from the conference room or the board presentation. Risk, at
Leadership rarely changes in a single moment. More often, it changes in repetition. Most executives can point to a handful of high-pressure decisions that shaped their careers. Those moments matter.
High stress situations make smart people do dumb things. Not because pressure removes intelligence or preparation. It doesn’t. Pressure taxes trust. In high-stakes environments, leaders rarely fail because they don’t
Most conversations about resilience start too late. They begin after a failure, not in the everyday leadership moments that determine whether failure becomes manageable or catastrophic. What determines whether an
Negotiation is often described as a specialized activity, something leaders prepare for when the stakes are high and the agenda is formal, but that view minimizes how negotiation actually operates