Category: Team & Culture
Build Nested Leadership That Works Without You
What happens to the organization when you’re not in it? That question drives Ron Bogart’s leadership fable, A Heartbeat Away: How Strong Organizations Outlast Strong Personalities. One character wakes from…
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A Good Acquisition Story Is Not a Plan.
When Wolf-Gordon announced it was buying Andor Willow and Look Walls and Interiors, the logic behind the acquisition was easy to read. The private equity owner, Charger Investment Partners, wants…
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Succeeding Your Own Boss
There's a version of executive onboarding that almost never gets written about, probably because it looks so easy from the outside. Whether it’s the CFO succeeding the CEO, or the…
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Designing The Right Offsites for Different Leadership Levels
Offsites can be rocket fuel or expensive theater. One difference is whether you design each for the kind of leadership each level needs to provide: cultural, strategic, operational, or tactical. When you nest your offsites to fit those roles, you…
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Why Leaders Get the Followers and Decisions They Deserve
Leaders don’t simply get the followers they deserve; they get the decisions they design for. When leaders understand the different ways people create value - artistically, scientifically, and interpersonally -…
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The Underappreciated Power of Operational Leadership
Operational leadership is the undervalued fulcrum between theory and reality. It is where strategy stops living in slide decks, where culture becomes observable behavior, and where tactics gain the coherence…
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Other-Focused Corporate Innovation: How Leaders Spark Creativity Beyond Themselves
Innovation fails when leaders make it about themselves. The most transformational breakthroughs come when leaders make it about others—their teams, customers, and the shared story that gives the organization meaning.…
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Noses In, Hands Out: How Boards Know When to Advise CEOs Versus Direct
One of the most important questions facing boards of directors about how they are working themselves is: Are we deciding, or are we advising? When that line blurs, directors step…
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The Counterintuitive Advantage of Panicking Early
Panicking is bad. But panicking early is good because that means you won’t panic later. And therein lies the counterintuitive advantage of panicking early – those who panic early never…
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