Category: Leadership Skills
The Three Requirements for Consulting Success per Deloitte Consulting CEO Jim Moffatt
Want to try consulting? Be different, be strong and be committed. Or be something else.
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Northeastern University’s Fight or Flight Decision
Survival of the fittest is all about survival of those most able to adapt to changing circumstances. Sometimes you have to flee in order to be able to fight another…
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Leading the Unmanageable to Do Amazing Things
There was no way Chris Lin could survive inside the Coca-Cola culture. So, I gave him a two-year unbreakable consulting contract and invited him to be our voice of truth. One of…
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A Framework for Turning Individuals’ Strengths into Team Synergies
Enter Phil and Allan Maymin and Eugene Shen to create the “Skills Plus Minus” framework. Marrying that with my BRAVE leadership model yields five steps: Understand the context in terms…
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Mergers and Acquisitions Are Not Strategies. They Are Tactics.
The critical point is to leverage mergers and acquisitions as tools to accelerate strategic shifts, not as answers on their own.
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How TriZetto’s CEO Changed Its Culture By Changing Its Attitude
Changing an organization’s culture is hard. But as Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” A counter-cultural strategy will fail every time. It may look like your new…
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MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor on How to Capitalize on the Mobile Wave Before You Get Washed Out
It’s always more fun to be part of the solution than to be part of the problem. When the problem is the inefficiency and ineffectiveness created by decades of ever-expanding…
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New Best Buy CEO Must Earn the Right to Lead Before He Can Lead
This is a classic case of converging and evolving with accelerated timing. Best Buy needs strong leadership as soon as possible. Joly has the knowledge and experience to provide that leadership.…
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Want to Change the World? Define Your Organization’s Attitude
Successful organizations like Apple, Coca-Cola, the Red Cross and Ritz-Carlton all have a distinct attitude. For example, Apple leads its competitors in designing innovative products. Winning attitudes do not emerge by…
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