How To Light A Fire Under Your Team When Things Are Going Well

May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

1) Get clear on current organizational strengths. 2) Look outside for a change you can take advantage of. 3) Align your team around leveraging the organization’s strengths against that outside change and then follow through.

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Where Should A New CEO Focus First?

May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The basics of 1) owning the vision, 2) investing in the right people, and 3) fueling the most important efforts by others are always necessary – and never sufficient. The secret to success is the application of those basics.

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Be the Somebody That Steps Up and Helps

May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Don’t let colleagues go into a new job unprepared. It’s not quite the same as letting them jump into shark infested water without warning them. But it’s close.

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Risk & Reward: Does Your CEO Take the Bet?

May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Senior leaders must make the choice about where to play. Then follow through and drop the other shoe of where not to play. Make the decision. Take the bet. And then make sure everyone else understands the logic of the choice and follows through to make it happen. Play the card. Burn the bridges. Move forward.

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Three Guidelines for Intel’s New CEO

May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment

This is Brian Krzanich’s moment as Intel’s new CEO. It was planned, seen and known. One can only hope he has managed the prelude well and can take advantage of the moment since Intel is at a point of inflection.

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How to Turn Rejection into a Job Offer

April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

How you handle rejection can make the difference in turning “no” into an offer. The key is to react in such a way that gives the person rejecting you a reason to re-think their position.

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IBM, Ritz-Carlton and Yum! Brands Empower Front Line Employees… Do You?

April 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The strongest leaders get that it’s not about them. It’s about the others. Whether you call them “first followers” or “front line,” leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose.

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Best Advice for New JCPenney CEO: Sell Quickly

April 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Sooner or later JCPenney is going to go away. The best thing their new/old CEO Myron Ullman can do is to make it go away as soon as possible. The faster he can sell its assets to one of the winning retailers, the better for all involved.

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Leading with a Clear Vision

April 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Align everyone around a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose.
Execute against that purpose on a societal, business and individual level with the discipline to keep the efforts separate.
Leverage the synergies. There are always synergies between efforts with the same purpose.

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The Key to Turning an Entrepreneurial Venture into a Real Business

March 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment

To successfully turn an entrepreneurial endeavor into a stable business, leaders must leverage their networks to fill critical skills gaps as the business evolves. Move from starters to transformers to sustainers.

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