Category: Team & Culture
Why You Should Have More, Not Fewer Meetings | Meeting Effectiveness for Leaders
Meeting effectiveness is not about having fewer meetings. It is about having the right meetings, with the right people, for the right reasons, done in the right way. When leaders…
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How Mission Briefs Accelerate Progress by Clarifying Direction, Resources, Authority, and Follow-Through
Teams fail when direction is fuzzy, resources are ambiguous, or authority is blurred. Too often, leaders assign tasks without enough context for teams to make smart, independent decisions. The result?…
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Bring Yourself to Work
There are few career inflection points more challenging, or requiring more thoughtful planning, than assuming a position of leadership. We unconsciously acquire bits of our leadership persona over the course…
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Leadership Transition Lessons from the NFL
Leadership transitions are rarely about failure. They’re about timing. They’re about trajectory. And they’re about whether an organization believes its next chapter requires a different kind of leadership than the…
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How to Elevate Executive Performance and Delegate the Rest
Most leaders are doing too much, and not enough. Too much of the wrong work, not enough of the right work. The answer is not more effort. It is leverage.…
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Flip The Script at Points of Inflection From Telling to Co-Creating
At strategic points of inflection everything changes and things either accelerate or stall. Flipping the script at those moments from telling people what the new order is to inviting others…
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How You Define Success as a Leader Defines You
By Mazher Ahmad, with George Bradt Every leader eventually faces a moment that forces them to ask a deceptively simple question: What does success really mean to me? In the…
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Leading Through Chaos Insights From The Mid-Market CEO Convention
This past week over a hundred mid-market CEOs and subject matter experts gathered at GE’s former global development center, Crotonville – now called Windrose on Hudson. They shared perspectives on…
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The Power And Danger Of Unintended Messages
This past Saturday morning, I stopped at a sandwich shop in Misquamicut, Rhode Island, looking forward to a simple breakfast to start the day right. But before I reached the…
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