Despite a young team and a quiet captain, this year's US Ryder Cup team shared valuable leadership lessons on their way to an historic victory.

The best companies and leaders don’t see the ebb of the last disruption as a respite. They know that disruption is one of the few constants in our lives. The best leaders see it as an opportunity to prepare for the next one.

The topic of inclusion is at the core of every challenge we’re facing. We can’t lead effective hybrid teams if we’re excluding people, and we can’t prepare ourselves and our organizations for an uncertain future if we’re not elevating and activating all people at their fullest capacities.

While the pandemic raised awareness and investment in business continuity plans, more remains to be done to prevent anticipated and unanticipated events from disrupting businesses

To understand the challenges associated with controversial activism, I turned to Bruce Carter who, as a former supporter of both Bernie Saunders and Donald Trump, has a unique perspective and ability to cross the divide.

Most companies are not prepared to thrive in a future with so many question marks, because most companies have not unleashed the individuality of their people—a critical step in building the agility needed to react to changing realities in the world, in the marketplace and in the workplace.

Leaders must be investing in, rather than extracting from, employees, customers, and communities, while at the same time delivering needed products, services, and innovations to the global community. The Covid-19 pandemic brought out many such heroic and generative business leaders.

The list of known strategy execution problems is long. But there is a key problem overlooked: ineffective sensemaking. Solving this problem will help reduce the strategy-execution gap.

Institutional knowledge is valuable but needs to be balanced with a healthy dose of institutional ignorance—otherwise we get stuck in our old ways and we suppress individuality without knowing it.

Charitable giving in the U.S. is a half-trillion dollar a year industry, driven mostly by the 99%. Unfortunately, the philanthropic tools used by the 1% are inaccessible to regular people. We are going to fix that.