It's 2024, and suddenly everyone's talking about the WNBA like it's an overnight success. Caitlin Clark! Angel Reese! Sold-out arenas! But here's what the "overnight success" narrative completely misses: the WNBA spent years getting knocked down, dusting themselves off, and figuring out how to use each setback as fuel for what came next. And that's exactly what your organization needs to learn to do.
Read MoreWhile most leaders are busy either panicking about AI replacing them or breathlessly evangelizing its capabilities, they're missing the most important truth of our time: artificial intelligence doesn't diminish the value of human judgment—it makes it exponentially more valuable. But only if you understand why.
Read MoreAll lives don’t matter… all lives can’t matter, until Black Lives Matter.
This is not going to be a typical Dowling Street Insight that you may have received from us in the past. It can’t be. Instead, today I’m going to share a personal message from my experiences and reflections over the last few weeks.
Read MoreDowling Street celebrated its 5th birthday at an anniversary celebration on January 17th at our headquarters in New York City. Clients, partners, friends and alumni all attended to commemorate the occasion and the road that has gotten us here.
Read MoreRecently, 60 advisers, associates, friends and members of Congress were all interviewed to give an account of how the President views his job. The consensus? Trump believes “every day is an hour-by-hour battle for self-preservation”.
Read MoreThe seeming paradox for many professionals today: the ability to shape and mold careers however wished, and yet, an overabundance of unhappiness. That is, so many describe themselves as “disengaged, unfulfilled and miserable.”
Read MoreBy now, you’ve heard about the precipitous fall of one of Hollywood’s most powerful men: Harvey Weinstein. Since allegations of his exploits surfaced in early October, the industry mogul was dethroned; ousted from the company that bears his own name, and expelled from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars.
Read MoreIn a recent interview with Harvard Business Review, IBM CEO Virginia “Ginny” Rometty discussed her concerted efforts to ensure the company stays relevant. It’s not difficult to see one clear theme emerge, seemingly a six-word lynchpin of her strategy in this transformation: “Don’t try to protect the past.” Rometty’s tack is a unique lesson in innovative thinking, efforts that otherwise could easily have gone awry.
Read MoreThe last in our seven-part series investigating the tension between the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio. In the last seven weeks, we’ve examined the history and context to understand the conflict, proposed a working theory as to its root cause, refined our theory after extensive research, and developed a comprehensive strategy to address our systemic challenge.
Read MoreWe’re in the home stretch of our seven-part series investigating the tension between the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio. We began this series by conducting a thorough diagnosis to identify the systemic challenge that we believe is the root cause behind the turmoil in New York. We responded to our diagnosis by developing a comprehensive strategy to address this challenge.
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