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Leading Through Chaos Insights From The Mid-Market CEO Convention

Leading Through Chaos Insights From The Mid-Market CEO Convention

This past week over a hundred mid-market CEOs and subject matter experts gathered at GE’s former global development center, Crotonville – now called Windrose on Hudson. They shared perspectives on what’s going on in the world and discussed various topics. Perhaps most…

Help Teams Improve Results By Focusing On Context And Intent

Help Teams Improve Results By Focusing On Context And Intent

The highest performing teams are interdependent, co-committed, agile, grounded in trust, and empowered. Just as projects nest within broader programs, project teams often nest within a broader organization with project sponsors or steering committees to help guide…

High Performers Think They Can. Clutch-Time Winners Believe They Must.

High Performers Think They Can. Clutch-Time Winners Believe They Must.

Virgil’s “They can because they think they can” works for high performers. But clutch-time winners “Must because they believe they must.” High performers and clutch-time winners share focus, discipline, adaptability, and presence. All engage. The differentiating…

CEO Boot Camp Insights 2024 And The Value Of A Core Focus

CEO Boot Camp Insights 2024 And The Value Of A Core Focus

All organizations design, produce, market/sell, deliver/distribute and serve. At the same time, the most effective organizations make one of design, production, delivery or service the core focus of building their competitive advantage and align everything around that.

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The Stockdale Paradox: Preparing Your Leadership Team for Adversity

Down 29 points in the third quarter of Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals, the New York Knicks did something that had never been done in Finals history. With…

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Building Accountability in High-Performing Teams: From Slogan to Commitment

Turning empowerment from a slogan into a mutual agreement and engagement from an attitude into observable commitment  Almost every leader says they want empowered people. Almost every employee says they…

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What To Do When Others Don’t Do What They Said They Would Do

One of the most predictable realities is that not everyone does what they said they are going to do - and even fewer do it when they said they would…

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Why the Best CEOs Start Board Meetings With One Simple Sentence

Most board meetings don’t fail because of bad data. They fail because of unclear expectations—especially about how directors should feel when they leave the room. Too often, management teams present…

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Recalibrating Your Own BRAVE Leadership in Turbulent Times

Leadership is most effective when it turns other‑focused intent into disciplined, everyday action in an ever-changing world. Take this moment to recalibrate how you are leading to sharpen both your…

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The Hierarchy of High Performance: Defining Ways of Working by Level

Use this approach to make your ways of working more disciplined, consistent, and effective by level, remit and choices, and systems and tools: Level, Remit and Choices:  Board – governance…

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