Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
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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Why Good Enough Is Generally Good Enough
Focus has two sides – what you’re going to focus on and what you are not going to focus on. People generally do a better job of picking what to…
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Lessons On Following A Sacrificed Change Agent From McKinsey’s New CEO, Bob Sternfels
Most change agents don’t survive their own change. The job of those following them is to help the organization get over the trauma inflicted by the change agent and then…
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The Real Reason McKinsey Is Firing Its CEO
Most change agents don’t survive their own change. McKinsey’s Global Managing Partner, Kevin Sneader either forgot that or ignored it and is paying the price as the first head of…
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Leveraging Asynchronous Communication To Bring Out The Best In Others
It has to make sense to leverage different ways of communicating with different people in different situations. While virtual communication is more efficient, in-person communication is more effective for emotionally…
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How To Rebalance Communication In The Post-Pandemic New Normal
Most of you shifted from in-person to virtual communication during the pandemic. Once you’re released from the pandemic restrictions, you’ll shift back. But you won’t shift back far enough or…
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