Riley BaulingApr 30, 20224 min readHow to ask better questions and why we all need toOne of the first assignments I got as a college journalist was to write a profile for my college newspaper on the winningest basketball...
Riley BaulingApr 30, 20224 min readHow to recruit top talent (and stop losing your best people in the process) Apple’s the richest company world, yet the Bed, Bath, and Beyond that it’s next to likely pays 7.5 times as much in rent. Why? Apple does...
Riley BaulingApr 30, 20224 min read4 steps to building more curiosity on your team and why it mattersThe best scene in “Ted Lasso” happens in the first season. One of the show’s antagonists, Rupert Mannion, challenges Lasso to a game of...
Riley BaulingApr 13, 20223 min readWhat therapy can teach us about being better leadersAs the story goes now, Orville and Wilbur Wright were geniuses. Unfortunately, that story is wrong. Convinced of their genius and the...
Riley BaulingApr 9, 20223 min readWhat French parents and The Doobie Brothers can teach us about leadershipMy favorite pause in a song happens at 2:40 in The Doobie Brothers' "Long Train Running." That pause, called a caesura, left me on the...
Riley BaulingApr 6, 20223 min readThe leader skill you need to master to disentangle yourself from conflictDaryl Davis never set out to persuade hundreds of white nationalists to give up their allegiances to organizations propagating racial...
Riley BaulingApr 2, 20223 min readWant to run better meetings? Here’s a simple, no-prep method we’re all underusingGeorgia O'Keefe was meticulous about the frames surrounding her paintings. To her, frames helped the "viewers to consider the way the...
Riley BaulingMar 30, 20225 min read4 steps to eliminating toxic team behaviorBad behavior on a team can spread like wildfire. What starts out as one person's complaining quickly becomes the team's mode of operation...
Riley BaulingMar 26, 20223 min readFailure is overrrated. Try this insteadThe travel photographer Chris Burkard wasn’t expecting to capture a volcanic eruption in real time on film. Burkard, though, whose 3.7...
Riley BaulingMar 23, 20223 min readWant to be a better leader? Do what Van Gogh didVincent Van Gogh couldn't find a model to paint. It was winter. It was cold. And the models he wanted to paint were adamant about staying...
Riley BaulingMar 19, 20225 min readWhat Wu-Tang has to teach us about running a world-class teamRza, the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, needed just one year. U-God, fresh off a prison sentence, was at his house. Guns, money,...
Riley BaulingMar 16, 20225 min readLearning from the masters: Samin Nosrat, master chef"No one's born a good cook," says Samin Nosrat. "You have to learn and practice." Nosrat, an Iranian-American chef who has done more for...
Riley BaulingMar 12, 20225 min readWant to be a better coach? Follow Wynton Marsalis's leadWynton Marsalis’s talent isn’t an accident. Marsalis, a virtuoso trumpeter with nine Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer, had a philosophy about...
Riley BaulingMar 9, 20225 min readSelf-awareness: why we have less than we think and how to get moreWhat’s the best way to prevent someone from speeding down the street in your neighborhood, assuming cost wasn’t an issue? A) Increase...
Riley BaulingMar 5, 20223 min readLearning from the masters: Jesse MarschWhat would you do if you inherited a team that was led by one of the most successful managers your company had ever seen? Jesse Marsch...
