Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
Why Restoring Your Culture After The Pandemic Is Doomed To Fail
One of the second-order effects of the pandemic has been damage to relationships – a pillar of any organization’s culture. Some will not be able to restore those relationships and…
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Drawing The Right Conclusions From The Brady-Mahomes Superbowl Matchup
Start by understanding it was not a Brady-Mahomes matchup. Those two were never on the field at the same time. The heart of yesterday’s game was a matchup of Tom…
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Relearning CEOs’ Real Job From Bob Swan’s Failure At Intel
How is this a surprise? How many times do we have to watch companies put the wrong person in the wrong job? Bob Swan was a rock-star CFO and the…
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Culture Is The Collective Character Of A Society. Manage It Or Perish.
Whether your society is a company, family, tribe or country, its culture is the combination of the characters of its members. While some members have more influence, all have some.…
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How To Beat The Odds And Make Equal Partnerships Work
Most of the time, equal partnerships are hard to make work because they are not actually equal. Furthermore, even if they are equal for one brief shining moment, they don’t…
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What Biden Should Do Now to Accelerate Progress in His First 100-Days
The election was a split-decision with Biden winning the Presidency, Republicans making gains in the House, and control of the Senate yet to be determined. There’s no doubt that the…
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How Joe Biden (And You) Can Keep Those Not Selected As VP Engaged
The Democrats will nominate Kamala Harris as Vice President this week. At the same time, there are more people that wanted the job and thought they had at least an…
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Why Your Cultural Evolution And Survival Depends On Your Middle Managers’ Attitude
Most see policies and guidelines as bureaucratic inhibitors and constraints. However, used the right way, those same policies and guidelines free people to do their jobs by directing focus. They…
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Post Pandemic Re-Booting Through Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy
COVID-19 has reset everyone’s progress up Maslow’s hierarchy of physiological, safety, belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs. As you re-boot your relationships with internal and external stakeholders including customers, you’re going…
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