Leadership, “Reputation Matters,” Forbes, February 8, 2026
New ways to lead productive, powerful meetings are surfacing, adapted from the Church, Corporate Boardrooms, British Parliamentary Procedure, the Military, Politics, the Intelligence Community and Futurists.
Informed by ever-more-sophisticated AI, these ideas can supercharge your meetings at every level, from board governance and strategy to task-oriented committees; from in-person Executive Committee meetings to Zoom remotes.
Group think, blame games, dissension for its own sake, and reticence to commit to a point of view are just four destructive behaviors you can find in poorly led board or meeting rooms.
Finding experienced new leaders and CEOs who can deal with such dysfunction is more difficult than ever. Megan Poinski, writer for Forbes C-Suite CEO Newsletter, tells us that in 2025 86% of all new CEOs were first-timers. Moreover, decision-making today has gotten so complex that, even with great leaders, organizations are looking for new solutions to handle so much complexity, such as becoming more team-led — witness the crop of Co-CEOs at Oracle, Comcast, Netflix, KKR, Spotify etc.) And a whole new wisdom around group decision-making — in person and remote — is emerging.
Be it operational, strategic, or governance-related, these new and newly adapted ideas on how to run transformative meetings are being championed by new sets of leaders. […read more]