In the past twenty years, we’ve seen breakthroughs in collaboration resolve conflicts over energy extraction and generation, food production, and water allocation. Yet the unrelenting global demand for these resources is raising tensions in many parts of the world. CBI’s 20th Anniversary Symposium, held this spring, brought together an extraordinary, [...]

Reliable generalizations about human behavior are hard to come by, and much sought after. We want to understand ourselves as much as anyone else, and the notion of broad, easy-to-understand categories of personality promise to simplify things. Categories – personality types – suggest that understanding our motives, biases, and behaviors, [...]

The core of leadership is coaxing better performance out of others. To do this well, leaders must to be able to confront their own fears, and quickly establish ways of communicating well with those they want to influence. Here Jacob Slichter reflects on the work he does coaching people to lead others in song. The lessons he shares are highly relevant to learning and leadership in just about any high-stakes context. Jake is a superb and wise coach, a brilliant teacher, and (in case you haven’t seen or hear him play) a pretty fair drummer. - Hal Movius

I study human relationships from the perspective of Social Neuroscience. For the past twenty years, I've watched people navigate their sometimes quite troubled social environments, looking for clues about what makes some relationships successful while others flounder toward conflict. This has led me to a deep understanding of how people [...]

As Warren Bennis has argued, there may be nothing more important to good leadership than making good decisions. I help leaders negotiate better agreements across a range of contexts. This involves treating negotiation as an organizational capability, so that decisions about negotiations are not left largely to the last minute, [...]