Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
Why The Leader As Cheerleader Is So Hard And So Important
Ever notice how great pep talks all have the same message? In one way or another, they all say, “Believe in yourselves.” It’s straight out of Virgil’s “They can because…
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How To Inspire, Enable And Empower Tactical Leaders
Strategy. Then tactics. Remember that. And remember the key parts of it: 1. Strategy precedes tactics, inspiring tactical leaders. 2. Strategy directs tactics, enabling tactical leaders. 3. Strategy gets out…
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Why ‘Thank You’ Beats ‘Yes’ In Strategic Selling
On the one hand, it looks like everything is stacked against her. Almost any set of assumptions plugged into our onboarding risk calculator suggests she should run, not walk away…
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When To Inform In Advance Versus Report After The Fact
The critical difference between “inform” and “report” is timing. Informing happens before and reporting happens after.
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When To Use The Three Different Ways To Fire Employees
Example-making is the most aggressive approach, utilized to send a message to others. Quick and clean works with aa contained, neutral message. Face-saving occurs by letting the separation be their…
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How Returning To The Office Provides A Rare Chance To Redirect Your Cultural Evolution
Some define culture as “The way we do things here.” Others take more thorough and complex approaches. We suggest a BRAVE framework as a middle way - simple enough to…
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Why You Need Complementary And Not Complimentary Advisors And Collaborators
If all your advisors and collaborators do is compliment you and your thinking, you’re not going to change, learn, grow, or come up with the best ideas and make the best possible…
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Why The Winning Path From Strategies To Plans Runs Through Enablers And Capabilities
Many of my own personal management frameworks were imprinted into my brain during my years at Procter & Gamble. One of the most fundamental is that plans should flow from…
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Your Employees Are Returning! Time For A Culture Change
For the most part, cultures evolve with the speed of Teutonic plates. They’re sticky, hard to change. But, every-so-once-in-a-while there are earthquake-like sudden shifts: mergers or spin-offs – or a…
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