Leadership roles come with new personal and professional challenges — and Sanyin Siang, board and CEO coach, adviser, and author, is here to help with an advice column for top managers. Send your leadership questions to asksanyin@mit.edu or submit the form below.
Wise leaders live with the discomfort of uncertainty and focus on horizon scanning and preparing for a range of options.
This short video explains how to smooth out snags in work relationships by changing some of your own habits.
When you just don’t get along with a colleague, reset the relationship by focusing on trust.
This short video explains how to build a better team by surfacing each player’s unique powers.
Learn how you can approach layoffs in the most humane manner possible in this short video.
Leaders’ direct involvement and presence in all stages of a workforce reduction helps maintain trust and mitigate harm.
In this short video, learn how to evaluate opportunities based on whether they build or diminish your personal capital.
Learn how you can escape the specter of your former boss and put your own mark on a new role in this short video.
Executives deciding their next move should weigh how they can best apply five types of personal capital.
Learn some simple but effective tips on how to reduce your own and your team’s impostor syndrome.
Sanyin Siang is a a CEO coach, author, and executive director for the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a professor with its Pratt School of Engineering. She is the winner of the Thinkers50 2019 Coaching & Mentoring Award and author of The Launch Book: Motivational Stories to Launch Your Idea, Business or Next Career (Lid Publishing, 2017).
