Category: Leadership

Leadership Moment: Submerging Your Voice If you were on any part of the Internet last week, you probably heard about the lost OceanGate submersible. As with almost any ongoing newsworthy event, there were a lot of opinions, as people across the Internet engaged in the roleplaying game of “being an instant expert on a complex…

I’m reminded that unintentional exclusion can still perpetuate harm. When I couldn’t attend a conference due to a Jewish holiday, the organizer’s response, “That sucks for us,” initially angered me. But I realized it was a lack of awareness, not malice. Micro-inclusions matter too.

Leadership Moment: A Critique Last week, I delivered the first public version of my new keynote (title in flux, but tentatively named Stop Destroying Value: Six Leadership Disciplines). When I give a talk, I’m not following a script, so some of my comments are more off-the-cuff than others. Sometimes, I take a great concept, and…

Leadership Moment: Is this really about safety? Every season, the NFL tweaks its rules. Two notable changes this season stand out: a modification to Thursday night games to let the NFL “flex” games into a Thursday in the midseason, and allowing fair catches on kickoffs, with the ball placed at the 25. What do these…

Are you a CISO in the midst of a job transition? If so, check out my just-published How to CISO: The First 91 Days guide for an in-depth look at the questions you ought to be asking and how to make and communicate your plans. Leadership Moment: An early wakeup I think it’s annoying when…

Leadership Moment: Dancing in the Rain I had the distinct experience this Saturday of taking four teenagers to see Taylor Swift at Gillette Stadium. If you’re a Swiftie, you probably already know it was a rain show. For everyone else, that probably evokes images of misery: driving in traffic in the rain, trudging from parking…

Leadership Moment: Putting on a Brave Face Last week, I was in a room with about a hundred folks from around the world, atop one of the taller buildings in Tel Aviv. At the time, Hamas was launching rockets out of Gaza, and we could see the Iron Dome interceptions from time to time. Most…

Leadership Moment: Two Bad Choices As you’ll see below, I’m in Tel Aviv right now. As the United flight was finishing up boarding in Newark, a flight attendant announced that they’d found a phone, and if it was someone’s on the plane, to claim it, or it would be left in Newark. A few minutes…

Leadership Moment: When adversaries pray together It’s probably no secret to many of you that I love the game of football. The Women’s Football Alliance recently started its 2023 season, with the defending champion Boston Renegades taking on the D.C. Divas this weekend. The game got very chippy at times, with a Divas player being…

Leadership Moment: Helping the newcomers In Matt Johansen’s Vulnerable U newsletter, he provides guidance for newcomers to and industry (in this case, security) on dealing with some of the biggest challenges they’ll face, which mostly organize around “you’re new here, and we use words in surprising ways”. Matt focuses on what a newcomer can do…