Why Employees Hide the AI That Works (and What 95% of Rollouts Get Wrong)
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com and Inc. Magazine’s #1 Leadership Speaker on Culture, argues that shadow AI is not an employee probl
How to Sell to Executives vs End Users: The Ladder of Abstraction
The ladder of abstraction comes from S.I. Hayakawa, who introduced it in Language in Action in 1939 and developed it in Language in Thought and Action, drawing on Alfred Korzybski&
Feedback vs Feedforward: Why Your Team Defends the Past
Feedforward is Marshall Goldsmith’s idea, published in Leader to Leader in 2002. Instead of reviewing what someone did wrong, you ask what would make the next attempt ten per
Stay Interview Questions: Why the Exit Interview Is Too Late
Exit interviews ask why someone is leaving at the exact moment they have no reason to help you. Stay interviews ask the same territory while the person still has options, and the a
Questions to Ask a Keynote Speaker Before You Book Them
The questions that predict whether a keynote lands are about preparation and self-knowledge, not credentials. Ask what the speaker needs from you before the event, ask about a room
The Closed-Door Test: Should Managers Do Weekly 1:1s?
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, recommends that managers keep the weekly 1:1 and change what goes inside it. Status, pipeline, and informa
Progress Is the Currency Now: Why Money, Praise, and Perks Stopped Buying Effort
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, argues that the old motivational operating system was built on money, praise, and perks, and that it now b
Take It Hard: What Leaders Do in the First Ninety Seconds After Bad News
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, calls it Take It Hard: the discipline of absorbing bad news fully, in the moment, without transferring the
Shrink the Loop: What Change Actually Looks Like Inside Companies Right Now
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, spent this year inside sales organizations, HR leadership groups, manufacturers, and associations working
What Employees Say When Leadership Is Not on the Call
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, interviews eight to fifteen employees before most of his keynotes. Fifteen minutes each, no leadership on
