Clarify Nested Leadership Roles With The BRAVE Framework

Clarify leadership roles by aligning cultural, strategic, operational, and tactical leaders with values, attitude, relationships, and behaviors respectively. This is a mashup of two frameworks - Nested leadership and BRAVE (Behaviors, Relationships, Attitude, Values,…

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Relooking At The 5 Most Important Questions For BRAVE Leaders

One of my early articles for this publication over a decade ago was The Five Most Important Questions for BRAVE Leaders. Originally designed as a way to look at culture, it’s…

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Relooking At Leading the Unmanageable to Do Amazing Things

One of my early articles for this publication was on Leading the Unmanageable to Do Amazing Things. The main point was that you couldn’t be bound by conventional approaches if…

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The Case For Two-Way Executive Onboarding

Organizations can’t deploy a consistent approach to executive onboarding because each new leader is different. And new leaders can’t onboard themselves on their own because they don’t understand their new…

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Relooking At The 5 Keys To Managing An Unpredictable Boss

One of my early articles for this publication was on Five Keys to Managing an Unpredictable Boss. The main point was that the five keys are the same as the five keys…

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Where Craft Masters Are Key To Winning In Business

There’s something almost magical about being in the presence of a true craft master. Their level of caring and sensibilities goes so far beyond unconscious competence that it makes all…

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The Critical Differences Between Strategic, Tactical And Crisis Leadership

Strategic leadership is about creating and allocating resources ahead of the action. Tactical leadership is about managing resources during the action. Crisis leadership requires both at the same time. The…

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Deciphering The Real Priorities By Looking At How Leaders Allocate Their Time And Resources

You know they lie. They may not mean to, but almost everybody at some point says one thing and does something else. They lie to you. They lie to themselves.…

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How To Get Off The Consultants’ Roller Coaster

Almost every individual consultant has experienced it. At the bottom of the hill, they put all their effort into selling. Then they get clients and head uphill. Then, at the…

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