Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

effrey Sonnenfeld is senior associate dean, leadership studies, Lester Crown professor of leadership practice, Yale School of Management, as well as president of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute and author of The Hero’s Farewell and Firing Back.

Don't Lose The Future

January 22, 2021

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Mick Jagger was 21 when he sang the Rolling Stones’ 1964 hit “Time Is On My Side.” He surely doesn’t believe that at age 77, nor do CEOs of any age. Whether in daily activities or enterprise performance standards, the clock is always ticking. And that can be...

For Big Tech, Breaking Up May Not Be Hard To Do

August 13, 2020

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Here’s a fun fact: This exact week of August 1962, Neil Sedeka’s “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” landed in the #1 spot of Billboard’s Hot 100. Thanks to last week’s Congressional antitrust hearings, this bit of trivia is suddenly ironic. Could the once unthinkable...

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