Executive Leadership

Every organization has two versions of its own performance: the one that gets reported upward, and the one that would […]

Listen to how your team describes its last miss. Two sentences will tell you more about your actual culture than

One question, asked correctly, tells you more about a candidate’s operating standard than every reference check combined. Describe a specific

Most advice for a new leader’s first ninety days is about establishing presence and making an early mark. All of

The people best qualified to describe what makes them valuable are frequently the ones least able to say it out

A sixty-day turnaround and a decision I still think about years later ran on the same instinct, at two very

People who enforce a standard as consistently as I do get asked, eventually, whether that makes them hard to work

The best recognition Scott Pleus ever gave was four words long, with no ceremony after it. Why small, immediate recognition beats the big gesture.

Not every leadership mistake resolves into a lesson. Scott Pleus on the decisions that don’t undo, and how to operate with them anyway.

Three years of zero failures felt like winning. Scott Pleus on why he stopped trusting his own clean record, and what he did about it.