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12 Powerful Phrases Natural-Born Leaders Usually Say That Make People Want To Follow Them | Amy Bracht

12 Powerful Phrases Natural-Born Leaders Usually Say That Make People Want To Follow Them | Amy Bracht

Published by Jenni Sidey

A natural-born leader’s role is to lead and guide their team and ensure their happiness and productivity. Effective communication is the way to achieve this goal. You create a positive work environment and foster a strong team dynamic by using a few of these powerful phrases and engaging in supportive conversations with your employees. Natural-born leaders usually say these powerful phrases casually: 1. ‘What’s new?’ When said with intention, it is a simple greeting that makes a significant difference when it comes to being a natural-born leader. Starting the day with a simple greeting like “What’s new?” positively impacts your team. This phrase shows you care about your employees’ well-being and creates an opportunity for them to share any updates or concerns. Regular check-ins keep a pulse on your team’s initiatives and morale. A greeting should be intentional so the employee knows you are interested. When you actively listen to your employee’s answer, it demonstrates your support and builds rapport. RELATED: If You Have These 7 Personality Traits, People Probably See You As A Natural Leader 2. ‘Can …

Phillips Face Major Senior Leadership Shake-Up, Ahead of Fall Sales

Phillips Face Major Senior Leadership Shake-Up, Ahead of Fall Sales

Published by Jenni Sidey

Half of the executive leadership team at Phillips is no longer with the auction house, and several other high-ranking employees have departed the company since the May sales. The two most senior departures are Miety Heiden, chairman of private sales, and Jonathan Crockett, chairman for Asia. Both will officially leave their roles next month. (Crockett’s departure was first reported in Art Asia Pacific and the Baer Faxt newsletter earlier today.)  Until now, the house’s four-person executive leadership team consisted of Heiden; Crockett; Robert Manley, chairman and worldwide head of modern and contemporary art; and Marianne Hoet, head of business development and chairman of Europe. This quartet all reported to chief executive Martin Wilson, who got the top role after Ed Dolman stepped down in 2024 to start his own consultancy firm. (In December 2024, deputy CEO Amanda Lo Iacono also stepped down from her role.)  Related Articles Wilson, who came to Phillips in 2019 as chief legal officer after 20 years at Christie’s; Manley, who joined the house in 2016 as deputy chairman and senior …

Care leavers are dying at a disproportionate rate – evidence and leadership are needed to support them

Care leavers are dying at a disproportionate rate – evidence and leadership are needed to support them

Published by Sam Flores

A new government-commissioned report has laid bare the tragedy of care leaver deaths. The review was conducted by social work leader Clare Chamberlain and journalist Ashley John-Baptiste, who grew up in care himself. It found that isolation and a drop-off in support contributed to the early deaths of 112 care leavers aged 18 to 24 in England in 2025. This is a staggering death rate of 130 per 100,000 care leavers, a figure at least three times higher than the general population. It is hard to overstate the magnitude of the failure that has led to this point. There are a range of causes of death, but the single largest cause is suicide. I have written elsewhere about how the rise of suicide in young people, and young men in particular, is the result of policy choices. For example, funding cuts to and rising demand for child and adolescent mental health services. This counts double for care leavers. These young people have grown up at least in part in the care of the state. The …

CardLab reshapes leadership to scale passwordless authentication

CardLab reshapes leadership to scale passwordless authentication

Published by skeptic

CardLab has appointed Jan Bisgaard as its new Chief Executive Office (CEO) as the company moves to scale its international business and meet growing demand for trusted digital identities. Founder Frank Sandeløv will remain as Chief Operating Officer (COO), overseeing technology, production and operations. The leadership changes, effective 1 July 2026, follow the scale-up of CardLab’s Access FIDO biometric smart card and the launch of its FIDO Certified Authentication Platform. The company says these developments have shifted it from a technology-focused developer into a commercial provider of complete passwordless authentication solutions. CardLab is now expanding its organisational structure as customers increasingly seek ways to verify identities securely in an environment shaped by AI, supercomputing and quantum computing. Its approach combines biometric authentication, offline identity verification and tokenisation, with the aim of creating trusted identities without relying solely on conventional online credentials. Speaking on the leadership restructuring, Sandeløv said: “Working closely with Jan over the past months has confirmed that we share the same vision for CardLab’s future. “This transition allows me to dedicate my time …

Does Leadership Training Change People?

Does Leadership Training Change People?

Published by Jenni Sidey

I am going to come right out and say it: “Leaders are not developed by attending a leadership training course.” As provocative as the statement may be, I stand by it. After more than three decades of high-end management consulting and leadership coaching at some of the largest organizations on the planet, I can tell you sending someone to a leadership training session for a week does not a leader make! Sure, a training course can raise awareness. Some even provide some scenario-based practice sessions. However, by day three back at work, the leader has already defaulted back to their “natural” habits and rituals for leading, making the training they received a fond memory. Why we think we can help people change by sending them to a training course for a few days is beyond me. Does a single week of education ever lead to deep and lasting change? Not really, because knowing what to do is not the same as doing it. Yet, according to a special report by Fortune magazine:[i] “The global corporate …

Pentagon fires U.S. military newspaper leadership

Pentagon fires U.S. military newspaper leadership

Published by Sam Flores

An aerial view of the Pentagon, which houses the US Department of Defense headquarters, in Arlington, Virginia, on May 31, 2026. Daniel Slim | Afp | Getty Images The editor-in-chief of the Stars and Stripes U.S. military newspaper said on Friday that he was being fired for insubordination and a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters that the Pentagon had sent notices to the paper’s leadership informing them that they would be let go. “According to the notice, I am being fired for stating in a CBS interview that hypothetical censorship of news for service members would constitute a personal red line,” Erik Slavin said in a statement. The source familiar with the matter, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said that Max Lederer, the long-time publisher of the newspaper who was set to retire at the end of September, was also removed. In his email this week announcing his retirement, Lederer wrote that it was clear that the Pentagon had a new vision for the newspaper that was different from his own. Lara Korte, who covered the Middle East for the newspaper, said on social media …

Ousted Ukraine defence minister challenges Zelensky’s leadership

Ousted Ukraine defence minister challenges Zelensky’s leadership

Published by Sam Flores

Ukraine’s ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called Tuesday for elections to be held even as the war against Russia continues, saying the country was gripped by a crisis of governance. The move by one of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s most loyal and longstanding team members until recently could become the most significant internal challenge Zelensky has faced since Russia’s full-scale invasion. FRANCE 24’s Emmanuelle Chaze reports from Kyiv, Ukraine. Source link

Leadership Requires Composure in the Pocket

Leadership Requires Composure in the Pocket

Published by Jenni Sidey

Beneath the obvious pressures a leader faces in the work itself, there are undercurrents involving emotional fields and self-differentiation, systemic psychological dynamics, that distort decision-making by leaders who otherwise consider themselves rational. In many organizations, the leader who moves first under pressure is credited with decisiveness, while the leader who slows the pace is suspected of hesitation or obstructionism. Over time, this trains systems to reward speed even when what is being rewarded is often reactivity. Murray Bowen’s language is useful here. Bowen defined “differentiation of self” as variation in people’s capacity to remain calm and clear‑headed under relational pressure — i.e., connected to others without being governed by the emotional field. Differentiation describes the capacity to remain in contact with others without surrendering the organizing function of one’s own thinking. That capacity is mostly built outside of decisive moments. A quarterback metaphor may help convey the experience, though in football the interval is brief, measured in seconds, whereas in leadership it may extend over minutes, days, or even months. The pocket is a state …

What Makes Leadership Effective? Balancing the Enduring Tension between Dignity Needs and Human Nature

What Makes Leadership Effective? Balancing the Enduring Tension between Dignity Needs and Human Nature

Published by Jenni Sidey

Throughout history, leadership has shaped the fate of organizations, states, and entire civilizations. Rome cannot be understood apart from Julius Caesar, Augustus, or Nero; China, the U.S. and Britain, and many other nations, still mark political eras by the leaders who defined them. Yet despite the proliferation of leadership theories and analytical methods, one question remains unresolved: what makes leadership effective in a world characterized by uncertainty, complexity, and rapid change? The urgency of this question has grown as technological disruption, mistrust, cultural schisms, geopolitical rivalry, economic interdependence, and social fragmentation place unprecedented demands on leaders across politics, business, and society. The challenge is not simply to identify better managers or more charismatic personalities. It is to understand how leadership creates the conditions under which people, institutions, and societies flourish. Why do some leaders inspire trust, hope, resilience, and innovation while others generate fear, fragmentation, or institutional decline? Why do leadership models that succeed in one context fail in another? And what enduring features of human behavior shape the possibilities and limits of effective leadership? …