Why You Should Have More, Not Fewer Meetings | Meeting Effectiveness for Leaders
Meeting effectiveness is not about having fewer meetings. It is about having the right meetings, with the right people, for the right reasons, done in the right way. When leaders…
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The Artistry in Communication: Where Leadership Comes Alive
Executive communication is often taught as a process of alignment — aligning messages with culture, strategy, operations, and tactical missions. That’s necessary but not sufficient. The artistry lies not in…
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How Mission Briefs Accelerate Progress by Clarifying Direction, Resources, Authority, and Follow-Through
Teams fail when direction is fuzzy, resources are ambiguous, or authority is blurred. Too often, leaders assign tasks without enough context for teams to make smart, independent decisions. The result?…
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Bring Yourself to Work
There are few career inflection points more challenging, or requiring more thoughtful planning, than assuming a position of leadership. We unconsciously acquire bits of our leadership persona over the course…
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Leadership Transition Lessons from the NFL
Leadership transitions are rarely about failure. They’re about timing. They’re about trajectory. And they’re about whether an organization believes its next chapter requires a different kind of leadership than the…
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Lessons From Tommy Norris’ One-Day Job Search
The five step career plan is iterative. The best practitioners of it iterate from the general to the specific. If in nothing else he does, Tommy Norris provides a model…
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High Stakes Landmines for Technology Executives
By Jeff Scott with George Bradt High-stakes onboarding landmines are everywhere for new technology executives, but few are as deadly—and as fixable—as a misaligned role. Being the right technology leader…
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How to Elevate Executive Performance and Delegate the Rest
Most leaders are doing too much, and not enough. Too much of the wrong work, not enough of the right work. The answer is not more effort. It is leverage.…
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Preparing For The Next Point Of Inflection With Contingency And Capability Plans
The next point of inflection is coming whether you’re ready for it or not. Your success as a leader doesn’t hinge on your ability to predict the future, but on…
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