When you go through any type of transformation you, by definition, have to think end to end. I believe there is no organization that’s not doing some sort of a digital transformation, and I would argue that if an organization is not doing a digital transformation they won’t be around for very long.

Mind Traps is the answer to the question asked by many talent executives,"What are the five things you can tell me about leading and complexity that would be really fast, that I could just keep in my mind and could you tell it to me in a way that I could just absorb it”

The two words I really don't like are consensus and compromise because I don't think they lead to optimal results. I think collaboration is a much more powerful concept and a high performing team should be looking for the highest level of performance and shouldn't be compromising or building consensus which almost never leads to high-performance activity.

Nowadays, we've gotten much, much smarter in terms of the advantage you have by focusing on people, teams, communication, collaboration and innovation in a way that takes the performance to a whole different level. So I think that's the advantage. And it still stuns me of how many organizations don't, don't prioritize that.

Few compete in the Olympics, but working toward long-term goals is something we can all understand. This requires the training mentality of an athlete, with prioritized day-to-day objectives, focused preparation and developed habits that together contribute to the success of ourselves and our teams.

I think simple tools like Shift for example can facilitate softer skills in leaders. The trends I see that will be valuable are: one, the visibility of data to all leaders at the same time. Second is the skill in getting the real input from each of the team managers and members. Third is to be able to do iterations and then most of them are softer skills.