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(This article was originally posted by Francine on Vistage.com) Vistage Chairs John Baines and Francine Lasky spent years honing their leadership styles as Vistage members before becoming executive coaches to help others cultivate their own management approaches. They remind CEOs that styles have to be both authentic to the leader and also useful to the teams they’re leading. […]

My Bubbe Florence often spread Yiddish words in conversation like schmaltz (chicken fat) on toast. The recent protests led me to begin unpacking the word “racism.” Here’s how . . .

I bet you can name 10 movies about damaged, highly successful male leaders: Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher), Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), etc. How many women do we see on screen as less-than-textbook leaders? Um, ones that win in the end?

The life-sized cutout of Mr. Spock in my Star-Trek themed Denver hotel room focused his logical stare at me as I hung up with my brother.  He had just given me his blessing to leave the family business I had helped build for the last 25 years and led for the last six.