Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
Chance Encounters Have Been Obliterated By COVID-19. Here’s How To Replace Them.
At some level, you know the problem. COVID-19 has switched your world from live to virtual. It turns out there are some nice things about this including savings in commuting…
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How To Set Tactical Leaders Up For Success
Strategies can be theoretically elegant and practically useless without the right tactical leaders. Too many strategic leaders assume if they just set the direction and explain it well enough, everyone…
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How To [not make but] Guide Decisions As A New Leader
The overriding prescription for your success as an executive onboarding into a new role is to converge into the team and organization before trying to evolve them. You can’t make…
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When To Discard Your Loyal Opposition
You need a meaningful level of loyal disruption, challenge, rebellion, and deviation on a team. Without it, inertia sets in. You don’t evolve. You stagnate and eventually get eaten by…
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The Pillars Of Interpersonal Leadership – Structure, Leverage And Confidence
Interpersonal leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. While the most effective strategic leaders think outside-in, the best…
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How To Win With A Service-Focused Strategy
As described in my earlier article on What It Takes To Accelerate Through A Strategic Inflection Point, if there is a change in your situation or your ambitions, you need to…
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How To Win With A Delivery-Focused Strategy
As described in my earlier article on What It Takes To Accelerate Through A Strategic Inflection Point, if there is a change in your situation or your ambitions, you need to…
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Why David Calhoun’s Onboarding As CEO Of Boeing Is A Work In Progress
Assume the replacement of Dennis Muilenburg as Boeing’s CEO has been in the works for a while. Job #1 for the CEO of a production-focused company is to keep the…
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Are Business Pivots Harder Than Football Pivots? Learn from the Steelers
Have you ever experienced challenges in your business that you resigned yourself to missing your financial plan? Teams in the National Football League encounter the moment where they are playing…
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