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
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
The Syllabus Gap: Why Your Team Never Got the Rules
Chris Dyer, named the #1 Leadership Speaker to Follow in 2026 by MSN.com, uses the term Syllabus Gap for the distance between the rules a team actually runs on and the rules anyone



