The Chief of Staff
A quarterly peer-reviewed journal

How to be a great chief of staff

While there may not be a 'secret ingredient' to success as a chief of staff, it is worth reviewing some of the wisdom that chiefs of staff have offered in the past.

Gubernatorial Chief of Staff named in Biden Transition Team

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s chief of staff John Bingaman to co-chair president-elect Joe Biden’s transition team.

Win the Fight, Win the Future

We cannot predict the future.
But we can seek to understand what the future might hold.

How to Lead in the New Reality (Fractal Strategy)

The crisis illustrates how business-related timescales can rapidly change or converge.

How Comeback Kids Will Build the New Reality

The impact of COVID-19 has created a massive disruption for companies worldwide. But this isn’t the first crisis they’ve endured—and it won’t be the last.

How to Build Sustainable Business Advantage in a World Where Great is No Longer Good Enough

Leaders must elevate and embed a continuous learning mindset. Going beyond great challenges many implicit and explicit assumptions about what it takes to succeed and thrive.

How CEOs can win the fight and transform to win the future.

CEOs should not allow the focus on near-term profits and competitiveness to obscure the need to transform the business in order to win the future.

The Heart of CEO Effectiveness

Effective CEO staffs represent the CEO, the company, and the brand to the board, associates, costomers, vendors, and the world with every interaction.

The End of Bureaucracy, Again?

Despite the model’s popularity, the effectiveness of bureaucracy has increasingly been called into question because of structural changes in the business environment.