Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
The Case For Using More And More Complete Investment Cases
Investment cases include far more than just an analysis of return on investment. At best, they are fully-fleshed out value equations, considering the benefits and costs that matter most to…
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Think And Lead Outside-in To Counter Groupthink And Insular Cultures
Insular cultures produce groupthink, don’t evolve as fast as others, and thus pose an existential threat to organizations. Instead, think and lead from the outside-in to ensure your culture and…
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How Trump’s First 100-Days Impact Your Next 100-Days
If we agree on nothing else, let us agree that Trump’s first 100-days have produced significant changes in the conditions in which you operate. Shame on you if you don’t…
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How Force Multiplying Leaders Build Teams That Make Other Teams Better
The essence and heart of a culture is its third value.
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How Strategies And Tactics Should Merge When Time Is Of The Essence
knocked a hole from the kitchen to a bedroom and turned the bedroom into a play room for our kids our first weekend in the house.
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For More Deliberate, Consistent, And Effective Ways Of Working
The essence and heart of a culture is its third value.
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Three Steps To Moving On From A Founder-led Culture
As you move on from a founder-led culture be deliberate about keeping the core focus, values, and nature of the organization that got you to where you are, while shedding…
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Everything Communicates Including Where, When, And How You Show Up
We’re never going back to everyone in the office every day. We’re all doing a blend of in-person meetings, videos, phone calls, emails, texts, and the like. Know the trade-offs…
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How A Burning Imperative Helps Build A High-Performing Team
The component of a Burning Imperative that is most important in building a high-performing team is co-creating. Bryan Smith laid out five ways to “persuade” someone: tell – sell –…
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