Leadership in 2022 - the 3rd year of Covid - will require even more honesty, humanity and humility from those who lead us or those who aspire to lead. This fictional CEO letter is an attempt to write down four leadership promises for every organization in the year ahead.

Corporate values can be a huge cultural asset and accelerant. But that requires thinking of them as a propellant - not as a placeholder or a placebo.

The traditional view, and definition, of power inside an organization needs a radical re-do. Power is, and has always been, earned and not deigned. Distributed, not hierarchical. Resident in formal AND informal networks.