The Leadership Advantage Hidden in Plain Sight

As featured in Thrive Global

The command-and-control playbook was written for a slower, more predictable world. Today's problems are complex, connected and always changing, and no single leader can have all the answers. In this Thrive Global article, Carol explains why collaboration has become the real source of leadership power. She draws on twenty-five years of studying transformational leaders and the framework that came out of that work, which she calls Collaborative Edge. She also shares a pattern she didn't expect to find. The behaviors that were long dismissed as "soft," and that executive women showed most consistently, are now the hardest leadership qualities to copy. Read more.