Three Generations Behind the Lens
What a combat photographer, a Polaroid camera, and a pine bough on a Nova Scotia road taught me about visualizing an image.
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Reflections on executive presence, team performance, and leading under pressure.
6 Lessons on Building a Great Team from an Inspiring Leader
Building a great team isn't about cherry-picking an All-Star lineup. It's about creating the conditions for genius to emerge. Here's what I learned from one of the best leaders I ever worked for.
Read →Do You Bring Light or Heat? 3 Steps to Ensuring You Display Grace Under Pressure
Not long before jumping out of a perfectly good C-47 — the second to cross the English Channel on D-Day — my grandfather Jim Bates photographed FDR. What happened next took me 25 years to fully understand.
Read →Is Leading Virtually Really New and Different? 5 Lessons from the Way-Back Machine
After a series of acquisitions created one of the largest insurance companies in the world, I found myself leading a team spread across 6 locations and 5 states — before Slack and Zoom existed. Here's what actually works.
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