There’s a Nap for That: Leading From First Gear
Capable leaders keep hunting for more minutes in the day. Tom Nebel makes the case for First Gear: the rest that buys back not just hours, but years.
Capable leaders keep hunting for more minutes in the day. Tom Nebel makes the case for First Gear: the rest that buys back not just hours, but years.
5 Voices rests on a measurement chain that runs back to the Big Five, the gold standard in academic personality psychology. Here is exactly how strong that evidence is, and where it stops.
Two operators, eight feet apart, and a question nobody logged. Why the team dynamics that never show up on a process map are slowing your process down, and the flywheel that fixes it.
Most leadership training is run like a fire drill: one room, one day, gone by Friday. A real system has four phases, and skipping any one of them is why nothing changes.
The best companies invest 1 to 2 percent of revenue in their people. Here is what that money buys, and what it quietly costs to keep skipping it.
Companies spend more than $60 billion a year on leadership development, and most of it never reaches the workplace. Here is what separates the programs that pay off from the ones that disappear.
Most executives agree culture matters. Far fewer build one that holds up under pressure. The difference is what the executive team models and measures every day.
Your team keeps bringing problems to your desk because you built the company around yourself. Building a leadership bench is how CEOs multiply capacity and buy back their week.
Most leaders try to fix culture in the big moments. It’s built in the small ones: the micro-moments where behavior meets values under pressure.
You can grow revenue without growing leadership. For a while you won’t even notice. Then the company gets big enough that you can’t be in every room, and you find out what is actually holding it together.