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
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
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
