1: What is the one strategy that is the most effective to overcome the seemingly endless problems that affect us as individuals and as a…
Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday,…
1: “Human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules.” Malcolm Gladwell tells us. Exhibit one: If we want to inspire people…
1: “Organizations often seem immovable,” Stephen Denning writes in The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling. The good news? “They are not,” he notes. So, how can…
“In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full…
Carlos is the CEO of a successful food company. “He is brilliant, hard-working, and an expert in his field,” writes Marshall Goldsmith in What Got…
Getting better at getting better is what Rise With Drew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary…
1: It’s the first day of class at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. About one hundred graduate students find their seats. Professor Ronald Heifetz, a popular…
1: Danny Meyer was struggling. Twenty-seven years old, he had just opened his first restaurant in New York City. He sensed he was making the…
1: Following their defeat in Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee and his Confederate Army retreated toward the refuge of Virginia. “At that moment Lee…
1: Eleven days after the Union victory at Gettysburg and ten days after General Ulysses S. Grant’s crucial triumph at Vicksburg, Abraham Lincoln suffered what…
1: In early June of 1944, the success or failure of the D-Day invasion rested on the shoulders of Dwight D. Eisenhower, write Raymond Kethledge…
1: Dwight Eisenhower was furious. D-Day was only weeks away. As the Supreme Commander of the Allied invasion of Europe, Ike was under tremendous pressure.…
1: Five days after Pearl Harbor, Dwight D. Eisenhower received orders to report immediately to the War Department in Washington, D.C. Stationed in San Antonio…
1: “Some may wonder how Navy SEAL combat leadership principles translate outside the military realm to leading any team in any capacity,” Jocko Willink and…
1: In the spring of 2006, when Navy SEAL Task Unit Bruiser arrived in Ramadi, it was the deadly epicenter of the Iraqi insurgency. A…
1: Yesterday, we analyzed a “blue-on-blue” or friendly fire incident that happened in 2006 in Ramadi, the deadly epicenter of the Iraqi insurgency, involving Navy SEAL…
1: “Pushing open the heavy armored door of my vehicle, I stepped out onto the street. I had a gut feeling that something was wrong,”…
We don’t stay the same. People and organizations are either getting better or getting worse. “We tend to think of an organization as a…