Rosemary Goodwin

Not long ago, I sat across from a senior leader who proudly described the culture of transparency he believed he had built. “My door is always open,” he said. “I tell my team I want the truth, even when it’s hard.”

Later that afternoon, I spoke with one of his direct reports. She paused when I asked her what it was like to work for him.

“He says he w

Bob and Mike are two very well-liked guys within tennis, and celebrations of them will surely be whole-hearted by everyone in the sport.

“But in the end of the day, when the players needed to be active and when there was a time of negotiations and decision-making, players weren't participating enough. This is an ongoing story of the players, particularly top players. They express their feelings, but then when you really need to put in the time and the energy into conversations, mee

You don’t reach the mainstream with your niche unless you genuinely meet with or create a cultural moment.

You don’t reach the mainstream with your niche unless you genuinely meet with or create a cultural moment.

Well, as said here many times, tennis has willingly entered its tennis-players-turned-content-creators-and-influencers era, and the ATP is now shrugging off all the alarm bells detonating on the way because… they’re off to be famous. You mean to grow the game? Well, sure, it’ll tag along with the fame, you know. Of course.

In TikTok, I don’t trust.

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Leadership work may just as often involve helping people learn to question widely accepted dogmas, slow down and reflect on the situation at hand, and caringly challenge authority—bosses included—instead of assuming they have all the answers. It can mean encouraging others to pause and consider things they’ve never taken time to ponder. To stay tru

There are times to dial doubt up — to challenge complacency, to stir curiosity, to question groupthink, to stand firm in one's values, to bring hidden ideas into the light, and to invite others to ask “why?”

Over the years, I’ve tried to train myself: doubt, discuss, dive deeper, understand better, assimilate input from others, reflect on what I’ve learned, get in touch with my intuition, make a decision, and then get to work. The doubt doesn’t really go away, but from that point on, it mostly sits on the sidelines while I do what I’ve decided to do.

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