In their recent Harvard Business Review article. “How CEOs Can Balance Strategy and Execution,” Michael Watkins and Millan Alvarez-Miranda posit, “Every CEO must simultaneously develop strategy and drive execution — and the need to do both at once has never been more urgent. As we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, companies will need to drive […]
Managing Your Personal Energy: The Physical Battery
What if you could improve the physical energy you wake up to each day? In the first article in Genesis Leadership Consultant Francesca Mereu’s Personal Energy Management series, we discussed how there are five “batteries” that drive and sustain your energy in different and meaningful ways via the Personal Energy Management framework. These are: Each of the five batteries […]
From Leader-As-Executor to Leader-As-Healer
Executives can reach peak performance by shrugging off the confines of constant “doing” and integrating their ways of both “thinking” and “being.” The COVID-19 pandemic lies within a much larger pandemic that has gone unnoticed – the split between thinking and feeling, doing and being, and mind, body and heart. A common view of successful […]
5 Questions About Stakeholders You Need to Ask When Starting a New Job
As written by Michael Watkins in his highly popular Harvard Business Review article, “5 Questions to Ask When Starting a New Job,” one of the most important tasks is focusing on the right things. Another key task is identifying and building relationships and alliances with key stakeholders. While new leaders may be given a “meet and greet” […]
Your 5 Batteries: A Guide to Personal Energy Management
The future-of-work leadership model places increasing and new demands on leaders, and never before has managing energy been so crucial to a leader’s success as it is right now. An analogy that springs to mind is when a plane hits heavy turbulence and a parent has to don an oxygen mask before helping a child […]
Accelerating Transitions in Hybrid Environments
In this episode of the Freshteams Leadership Podcast, the hosts interviewed Genesis cofounder, leadership transitions expert, and Thinkers 50-ranked management influencer Michael Watkins about how organizations can effectively onboard new leadership talent in a hybrid/remote work environment – something many companies are grappling with as they emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. Below is a summary of the […]


