Reflections on executive presence, team performance, and leading under pressure.
Executive presence. The term is cryptic, overused, and non-specific. Here's how the ExPI demystifies it — and why behaviors, not personality, are the lever that actually moves the needle.
Read →What a combat photographer, a Polaroid camera, and a pine bough on a Nova Scotia road taught me about visualizing an image.
Read →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 →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 →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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