Caroline Webb
@carolinewebb.bsky.social
Evidence-based leadership coach, helping professionals excel by translating and applying insights from behavioral and cognitive science. Thinkers50 "Coaches50" | McK Senior Advisor, ex-Partner | Author, How To Have A Good Day | carolinewebb.co
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The 2025 Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts
Who makes my updated list? More important, who are some of the experts you should listen to?
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Thrilled to be on this Inc magazine 2025 list of the Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, alongside so many heroes! Thank you Jeff Haden for the honor. www.inc.com/jeff-haden/t...
Lisa Kay Solomon is a futurist at Stanford's d-school, and I was delighted to be on her podcast How We Future, which shines a light on the room we each have to shape our future, day by day. I loved our conversation. I hope you like it! howwefuture.substack.com/p/caroline-w...
How to Have a Better Day (Even When Things Feel Overwhelming)
A conversation with Caroline Webb
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November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Lisa Kay Solomon is a futurist at Stanford's d-school, and I was delighted to be on her podcast How We Future, which shines a light on the room we each have to shape our future, day by day. I loved our conversation. I hope you like it! howwefuture.substack.com/p/caroline-w...
Thrilled to be on this Inc magazine 2025 list of the Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, alongside so many heroes! Thank you Jeff Haden for the honor. www.inc.com/jeff-haden/t...
The 2025 Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts
Who makes my updated list? More important, who are some of the experts you should listen to?
www.inc.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thrilled to be on this Inc magazine 2025 list of the Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, alongside so many heroes! Thank you Jeff Haden for the honor. www.inc.com/jeff-haden/t...
Reposted by Caroline Webb
“The square one fallacy is arguing that we have no data to illuminate a particular question, that we’re starting from scratch, when there is an actual body of evidence that we are ignoring, either deliberately or cluelessly.” https://buff.ly/3ELlBcq
HT @docgrawitch
HT @docgrawitch
February 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
“The square one fallacy is arguing that we have no data to illuminate a particular question, that we’re starting from scratch, when there is an actual body of evidence that we are ignoring, either deliberately or cluelessly.” https://buff.ly/3ELlBcq
HT @docgrawitch
HT @docgrawitch
Just finished reading Ethan Kross's new book, Shift, on how to manage your emotions effectively. It's great - readable, practical, comprehensive, human. I've drawn on his work a lot over the years, and if you have ever enjoyed my writing about resilience I'm sure you'll love this.
February 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just finished reading Ethan Kross's new book, Shift, on how to manage your emotions effectively. It's great - readable, practical, comprehensive, human. I've drawn on his work a lot over the years, and if you have ever enjoyed my writing about resilience I'm sure you'll love this.
If you're interested in #leadership, I recommend following @helenbevan.bsky.social - she posts very thoughtfully on what it takes to transform an organization's effectiveness, based on evidence and experience (e.g. her note below sharing fieldwork on rituals in teams) #LeadershipResearch
"Team rituals" are regular activities/practices, eg huddles, team lunches, check-ins, celebrations. New research shows teams with more rituals have more engagement, psychological safety, knowledge & job satisfaction, leading to higher productivity/performance: lnkd.in/eXNNvP-G Art: lnkd.in/e_XmBeg9
January 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you're interested in #leadership, I recommend following @helenbevan.bsky.social - she posts very thoughtfully on what it takes to transform an organization's effectiveness, based on evidence and experience (e.g. her note below sharing fieldwork on rituals in teams) #LeadershipResearch
When colleagues or friends lose their home, what on earth can you say or do to be helpful? Useful advice in this HBR article from two people who've been through weather horror themselves, from fires to hurricanes. hbr.org/2025/01/when...
When Your Coworker Loses a Home
What are the right things to do or say when your colleague loses a home in a disaster? You may worry about having the right words, but staying silent leaves a void. While there’s no perfect answer eve...
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January 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
When colleagues or friends lose their home, what on earth can you say or do to be helpful? Useful advice in this HBR article from two people who've been through weather horror themselves, from fires to hurricanes. hbr.org/2025/01/when...
While working on my next book one of the very best things I've discovered is SciSpace, the AI research platform. It has been a total delight (no hallucinations!) and everyone I've shown it to has loved it as well. I am not on commission, I promise, just... enthusiastic and grateful. typeset.io
AI Chat for scientific PDFs | SciSpace
Chat with PDF and conduct your literature review faster using SciSpace. Discover 200M+ papers or upload your own PDF, highlight text or ask questions, and extract explanations and summaries
typeset.io
January 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
While working on my next book one of the very best things I've discovered is SciSpace, the AI research platform. It has been a total delight (no hallucinations!) and everyone I've shown it to has loved it as well. I am not on commission, I promise, just... enthusiastic and grateful. typeset.io
It's an excellent time of year to show some gratitude to anyone who has made 2024 a little better for you. Here's @pilitaclark.bsky.social in the @financialtimes.com with some stats on why praise matters so much in the workplace: on.ft.com/4ftJh1Z. Thank you for reading! (See what I did there...)
The power of praise
Recognising good work is cheap, effective and not done nearly as much as it should be
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December 19, 2024 at 8:46 PM
It's an excellent time of year to show some gratitude to anyone who has made 2024 a little better for you. Here's @pilitaclark.bsky.social in the @financialtimes.com with some stats on why praise matters so much in the workplace: on.ft.com/4ftJh1Z. Thank you for reading! (See what I did there...)
Delighted that the OG Behavioural Insights Team has released a new version of their excellent EAST Framework handbook, first published in 2014 and updated just now to reflect 10 more years of evidence on behavioral science usage around the world. www.bi.team/publications...
Four Simple Ways to Apply EAST Framework to Behavioural Insights
Discover four easy ways to use EAST Framework to apply behavioural insights to your business or project with helpful advice from The Behavioural Insights Team.
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December 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Delighted that the OG Behavioural Insights Team has released a new version of their excellent EAST Framework handbook, first published in 2014 and updated just now to reflect 10 more years of evidence on behavioral science usage around the world. www.bi.team/publications...
If you're already here, you might not need convincing - but here's an interesting thread by @mjcrockett.bsky.social on her lab's research on exactly how Twitter/X built their Outrage Machine. Fascinating.
Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why.
Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social
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Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social
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December 3, 2024 at 3:23 PM
If you're already here, you might not need convincing - but here's an interesting thread by @mjcrockett.bsky.social on her lab's research on exactly how Twitter/X built their Outrage Machine. Fascinating.
Me trying to build up the courage to make my first Bluesky post - whoops, there, I did it!
Miniature Horse Afraid to Jump Down Small Step
YouTube video by Funny World
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November 24, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Me trying to build up the courage to make my first Bluesky post - whoops, there, I did it!
Thank you for this honor @thinkers50, I am thrilled to be on your #Coaches50 list of top executive coaches!
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January 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thank you for this honor @thinkers50, I am thrilled to be on your #Coaches50 list of top executive coaches!
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Big news: KKR has identified leaders' empathy as a key performance driver. Discover the traits of empathetic leadership linked to better outcomes in @danprimack's article:
axios.com/2024/05/08/pri…
axios.com/2024/05/08/pri…
KKR thinks private equity's top returns may be tied to CEO empathy
KKR has learned something about the best CEOs.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Big news: KKR has identified leaders' empathy as a key performance driver. Discover the traits of empathetic leadership linked to better outcomes in @danprimack's article:
axios.com/2024/05/08/pri…
axios.com/2024/05/08/pri…
Ever wonder what makes some images stick in memory while others fade away? This fascinating ready by @B_resnick dives into the unpredictability of memory in our visual world, revealing insights only partially explained by science:
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Why do we remember what we remember?
The mundane photographs that are helping scientists probe the mysteries of memory.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ever wonder what makes some images stick in memory while others fade away? This fascinating ready by @B_resnick dives into the unpredictability of memory in our visual world, revealing insights only partially explained by science:
vox.com/the-highlight/…
vox.com/the-highlight/…
"How are you?"
It’s one of those questions that’s more reflexive than heartfelt.
In #HowToHaveAGoodDay, I’m sharing how to become a better communicator. It comes down to one ingredient that helps elicit sincere responses and meaningful conversations:
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It’s one of those questions that’s more reflexive than heartfelt.
In #HowToHaveAGoodDay, I’m sharing how to become a better communicator. It comes down to one ingredient that helps elicit sincere responses and meaningful conversations:
linkedin.com/newsletters/ho…
How To Have A Good Day | LinkedIn
Caroline Webb | Science-based tips for professional life and leadership
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January 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"How are you?"
It’s one of those questions that’s more reflexive than heartfelt.
In #HowToHaveAGoodDay, I’m sharing how to become a better communicator. It comes down to one ingredient that helps elicit sincere responses and meaningful conversations:
linkedin.com/newsletters/ho…
It’s one of those questions that’s more reflexive than heartfelt.
In #HowToHaveAGoodDay, I’m sharing how to become a better communicator. It comes down to one ingredient that helps elicit sincere responses and meaningful conversations:
linkedin.com/newsletters/ho…
Oh my goodness. Daniel Kahneman has died. I am so grateful for his life and his work - it has shaped so much of what I do, and shaped so much of how we all think about human behavior. RIP and thank you.
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Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oh my goodness. Daniel Kahneman has died. I am so grateful for his life and his work - it has shaped so much of what I do, and shaped so much of how we all think about human behavior. RIP and thank you.
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Work feeling like an uphill battle? My free "Good Day Index" reveals your strengths, unlocks personalized tips for improved performance & well-being, and points you to chapters from my book that would benefit you most. Take back control of you workday:
carolinewebb.co/good-day-index/
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The Good Day Index | Caroline Webb
Whether we have a great day or a grueling one is of course partly down to circumstances beyond our control. But behavioral science research tells us that we have more power to shape the quality of our days than many of us realize.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Work feeling like an uphill battle? My free "Good Day Index" reveals your strengths, unlocks personalized tips for improved performance & well-being, and points you to chapters from my book that would benefit you most. Take back control of you workday:
carolinewebb.co/good-day-index/
carolinewebb.co/good-day-index/
In a world dominated by automation, our distinctly human strengths like wisdom, empathy, and creativity shine. Discover actionable tips for thriving as a leader in my Chief Executive article:
chiefexecutive.net/how-behavioral…
chiefexecutive.net/how-behavioral…
How Behavioral Science Can Raise Our Leadership Game In The Future of Work
For humans to thrive in a world of increasing automation, we have to make the most of our distinctly human strengths—which means being deliberate about cultivating wisdom, empathy and creative problem-solving in our workplaces.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In a world dominated by automation, our distinctly human strengths like wisdom, empathy, and creativity shine. Discover actionable tips for thriving as a leader in my Chief Executive article:
chiefexecutive.net/how-behavioral…
chiefexecutive.net/how-behavioral…
Comfort zones can limit your leadership potential. Embrace discomfort to grow as a leader. Check out my insights in this Fast Company article:
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fastcompany.com/90537475/this-…
This one thing is holding you back from becoming a leader - Fast Company
"the greatest upside of unease is its potential to be a profound and positive leadership growth moment."
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January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Comfort zones can limit your leadership potential. Embrace discomfort to grow as a leader. Check out my insights in this Fast Company article:
fastcompany.com/90537475/this-…
fastcompany.com/90537475/this-…
Midlife has had a bad rap, but @ChipConley has done so much to reframe how we see this potentially glorious phase of our lives. His brand new book "Learning to Love Midlife" captures all that wisdom - do check it out:#midlifechrysalis
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Chip Conley - Learning To Love Midlife
Embrace midlife with Chip Conley's transformative guide. Uncover 12 reasons why ages 35-75 can be the best years yet. Drawing from personal experiences and industry insights, Chip offers a fresh perspective on navigating and cherishing this phase.
chipconley.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Midlife has had a bad rap, but @ChipConley has done so much to reframe how we see this potentially glorious phase of our lives. His brand new book "Learning to Love Midlife" captures all that wisdom - do check it out:#midlifechrysalis
chipconley.com/learning-to-lo…
chipconley.com/learning-to-lo…
People will feel at least the situation has been handled fairly.
It will make it a lot easier for them to accept the decision and move on.
#fairness #psychology #behavioralscience #transparency
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It will make it a lot easier for them to accept the decision and move on.
#fairness #psychology #behavioralscience #transparency
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January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
People will feel at least the situation has been handled fairly.
It will make it a lot easier for them to accept the decision and move on.
#fairness #psychology #behavioralscience #transparency
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It will make it a lot easier for them to accept the decision and move on.
#fairness #psychology #behavioralscience #transparency
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Just think about the last time you felt something was unfair, and remember how tense and unfocused it made you feel. So if you ever have to make a decision that won't please everybody, go out of your way to explain the *process* behind your choice.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Just think about the last time you felt something was unfair, and remember how tense and unfocused it made you feel. So if you ever have to make a decision that won't please everybody, go out of your way to explain the *process* behind your choice.
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"What if I'm wrong?" I'm always looking for questions that are easy to remember but have positive impact on our quality of thinking, this is one of my favorites. Read why it's powerful in this extract from @danieldennett's new book 'I've Been Thinking.
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What If I’m Wrong? - By Daniel Dennett - Behavioral Scientist
Good thinkers frequently ask themselves this question, the way good doctors frequently check their practices against the Hippocratic oath they swore.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"What if I'm wrong?" I'm always looking for questions that are easy to remember but have positive impact on our quality of thinking, this is one of my favorites. Read why it's powerful in this extract from @danieldennett's new book 'I've Been Thinking.
loom.ly/2ixQcJo
loom.ly/2ixQcJo
Love this video of a runner accidentally ending up leading a flock of sheep in a forest. Sometimes that's what leadership feels like, especially leadership that's not about formal authority but about an idea that catches other people's imagination.1/2
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About 100 sheep follow a runner closely behind them on the trails in Central France. #runner #sheep
Runners are no strangers to animal encounters while out running on the trails. Sometimes animals even find their way into races. Sometimes it can even be dangerous.Thankfully, nothing baaa-d happened. Artist Eleanor Scholz came across the runner—and about 100 new friends—while hiking in central France, near Puy de Dôme.
According to Sheep 101, sheep instinctually gravitate toward flocking behavior. “They will run from what frightens them and band together in large groups for protection. This is the only protection they have from predators. There is safety in numbers.”
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January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Love this video of a runner accidentally ending up leading a flock of sheep in a forest. Sometimes that's what leadership feels like, especially leadership that's not about formal authority but about an idea that catches other people's imagination.1/2
loom.ly/RY_T0K4
loom.ly/RY_T0K4
The 9th Annual Women in the Workplace report has just been published by @McKinsey and @LeanInOrg. And the data says a lot.
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Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report
Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, McKinsey’s annual Women in the Workplace report is the largest study of women in corporate America. See our 2024 findings.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The 9th Annual Women in the Workplace report has just been published by @McKinsey and @LeanInOrg. And the data says a lot.
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