Blog — Mark Lipton

CEO Activism
- Oct 7, 2016 Toward a New Capitalism
- May 25, 2016 Corporate Activism Heats Up in North Carolina
- May 18, 2016 How CEO Activism Goes Beyond Business
- May 11, 2016 Are Activist CEOs Bullies or Beacons?
- Nov 23, 2015 On Greed and Goodness
CEO Leadership
- Jul 21, 2017 Why Defending Travis Kalanick Is Lame
- Jan 11, 2017 Political Beliefs and CEO Pay
- Nov 8, 2016 President Hillary and the Next Generation of Leaders
- Oct 26, 2016 Tenure and the Ticking Clock
- Feb 10, 2016 Do Leaders Simply Look for Themselves When Hiring?
- Dec 7, 2015 Five Reasons Humility Is Key to Being a Good CEO
- Nov 9, 2015 Why the Best Leaders Trust Their Employees
- Jun 29, 2015 Why Transparency Is Tricky
- Apr 27, 2015 How Civility Breeds Success
Case Study
- May 4, 2016 The Fall of Theranos: The Gap Between Innovating and Optimizing
- Apr 27, 2016 The Wisdom Behind GameStop’s Bold Move
- Feb 24, 2016 What Comes Before a Fall: Lessons from the Growth and Crash of Zenefits
- Nov 16, 2015 What the Seahawks Can Teach Us About Combatting Mean
- Oct 19, 2015 Lessons from the Indefensible Dov Charney
- Aug 24, 2015 The Lurid Scandal of DC’s Most Powerful Rabbi
- Aug 10, 2015 Strength in Numbers: Lessons from the Downfall of Mark Driscoll
Entrepreneurs
- Jun 29, 2016 My Own Awakening to the Impact of Mean Men
- Oct 12, 2015 Five Common Misconceptions About Psychopaths
- Oct 5, 2015 American Psychos: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship
- Sep 14, 2015 Messy Management Research: Why We See the Entrepreneur as a “Great Man”
- Jun 15, 2015 When Entrepreneurs Get It Right
- May 4, 2015 Risky Business: The Cost of Hubris
- Mar 23, 2015 The Charisma Factor
- Mar 9, 2015 Free-Agent Nation
- Mar 2, 2015 The Ten Characteristics of an Entrepreneur
- Feb 15, 2015 The Golden Boys of Mean
Female Leaders
- Aug 31, 2016 The Audacity of Emotion
- Jun 8, 2016 Where Are the Mean Women?
- Apr 6, 2016 Is Hillary Mean?
Founders
- Jun 15, 2016 The Founder’s Dilemma
- Dec 14, 2015 The Founder’s Dilemma
Mean Men
- Mar 2, 2018 5 Ways to Combat Sexual Harassment at Nonprofits
- Aug 16, 2017 Don’t Learn from Your Mistakes—“Apologize” Instead!
- Aug 4, 2017 Women Are Leading the Takedown of Silicon Valley’s Mean Men
- Jun 22, 2016 How to Cope With a Mean Boss
- Jun 1, 2016 Why Mean Men Get a Pass from the Media
- Mar 23, 2016 Don’t Let Trump Finish First
- Feb 17, 2016 Mark Driscoll: The Teflon Mean Man
- Nov 2, 2015 Who’s Allowed to Be Mean? A History
- Oct 26, 2015 How to Create Boundaries with Your Ruthless Boss
- Sep 28, 2015 When Does “Mean” Become a Personality Disorder?
- Sep 21, 2015 My Own Awakening to the Impact of Mean Men
- Sep 8, 2015 One Significant Way Good People Can Go Bad
- Aug 31, 2015 The Banality of Meanness
- Aug 17, 2015 Do You Have a Mean Man in Your Life?
- Aug 3, 2015 Mean Men vs. Mean Women
- Jul 27, 2015 More Strategies for Coping with a Mean Boss
- Jul 20, 2015 How to Cope with a Mean Boss
- Jul 13, 2015 Incivility in America
- Jul 6, 2015 Why Christie’s Meanness Will Be His Undoing
- Jun 22, 2015 Is Mean the New Normal?
- Jun 8, 2015 Can We Protect Those Who Confront Mean Men?
- Jun 1, 2015 Where Are the Mean Women?
- May 22, 2015 The Irony of Accountability: It’s About the Money, Not the Meanness
- May 18, 2015 Profiles in Mean: Harvey Weinstein
- May 11, 2015 Why Mean Men Get a Pass from the Media
- Apr 20, 2015 Why Mean Doesn’t Work
- Apr 13, 2015 Profiles in Mean: Mark Pincus
- Apr 6, 2015 Why Women Stay with Mean Men
- Mar 30, 2015 Married to Mean
- Mar 16, 2015 Profiles in Mean: Dov Charney
- Feb 23, 2015 Profiles in Mean: Peter Arnell
Vision
- Apr 13, 2016 What Trump Can Learn from Successful Organization Transformations
- Mar 16, 2016 What We Can Learn About Culture from Zenefits
- Mar 9, 2016 Why Start-Ups Fail: Part Two
- Mar 2, 2016 Why Start-Ups Fail
- Jan 18, 2016 Why Culture Should Be at the Center of Your Organizational Vision
- Jan 11, 2016 The Mindset That Will Take You from Vision to Reality
- Jan 4, 2016 Finding an Appetite for Vision
- Dec 28, 2015 How Myopia Can Stall Your Vision
- Dec 21, 2015 Why Having a Clear Vision Is Crucial to Success