Most leaders say they value curiosity. Most organizations say they reward it. The data—and lived experience—suggest otherwise. In executive teams across industries, curiosity is often praised in theory and penalized in practice. Leaders encourage people to “think differently,” yet when decisions need to be made quickly, questions are treated as friction. Exploration feels risky. Certainty gets rewarded. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s a […]

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Fresh out of business school, with tons of hope and an abundance of aspiration, my first job wasn’t in a corner office, it wasn’t even in an office at all. It was behind the wheel of a Frito-Lay delivery truck. I was a Teamster. At 4:00 a.m., I loaded boxes of chips and stocked shelves […]

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