The Adaptive Journey

In this episode, executive coach and senior writer Albert Wolfe and senior coach J.D. Whitney ask a deceptively simple question: does your team actually know if they're winning? Drawing on real client stories from sales, tech, and manufacturing, they dig into Measurements, the third piece of their EMMA (Expectations, Motivations, Measurements, Accountability) performance leadership model, and unpa...

In this episode, executive coach and senior writer Albert Wolfe and senior coach J.D. Whitney dig into the accountability gap: the space between what leaders assume is happening on their teams and what's actually happening. Drawing on Gallup and Hogan research on leadership competencies, they unpack why accountability is consistently the hardest of these to get right, and why it pays off dispropor...

In this episode, executive coach and senior writer Albert Wolfe and senior coach J.D. Whitney react to new research from Hogan Assessments revealing a striking disconnect: the five things that get leaders promoted globally have zero overlap with what employees say they actually want from their leaders. Drawing on decades of coaching experience across industries and continents, Albert and J.D. unpa...