
How Early Wins Help Build A High-Performing Team
Early wins give teams confidence in themselves. This is why they are generally little wins that can be delivered early, as opposed to big wins that take more time. The general guidance is to over-invest in the early wins to accelerate them and pave the way for other...

How Milestone Management Helps Build A High-Performing Team
Milestone management helps build a high-performing team by providing a systemic engine for learning and adapting. Instead of meeting just to update each other on progress, flip the classroom, putting the updates in a shared file that all can access all the time and...

Break The No-win Effectiveness Versus Efficiency Trade-off With Five Priority Levels
The only way to sustain a competitive position over time is to get all clear on your core focus

How RACI Can Make Teams More Effective – If You Go Beyond The Basics
Clarify the approving authority, the difference between consulting and concurring, and when to inform people before or after the fact.

The Critical Difference Between Pressure And Support
Often someone putting pressure on someone else thinks they are being supportive

Relooking At The Importance Of Milestone Management
Compiling milestones is a waste of time if you do not have an efficient, effective and clear process and process owner in place to track them – and avoid the “next week” syndrome.

How Team Charters Drive Impact From Mush
The differences between teams that follow through and don’t are clarity of purpose, availability of resources, and agreement on and acceptance of bounded authority and accountability

The Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Sub-Playbook #5 – Governance
Per our earlier article on A Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Playbook For Success, avoid the traps of 1) poor strategic focus, 2) poor cultural integration and/or 3) poor delivery of synergies by leveraging the full playbook and its seven...

How Next-Level Decision Rights Lead To Better Decisions
Most decision rights conversations are about who gets to make which decisions. Applying next level strategic selling logic takes into account economic, user and technical buyers and coaches, and encourages them to work together to improve instead of block decisions....

Helping Colleagues With Post-Covid Stress Disorder (PCSD)
Post-Covid Stress Disorder is a sub-set of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder caused by the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Leave treating its symptoms to others. Put your efforts into helping colleagues improve their stress reduction skills, and regain self-confidence...