Category: Team & Culture
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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Why New Target CEO Fiddelke’s Plans Won’t Do What ‘Players First’ Did For EA
As Target orchestrates its highly anticipated CEO transition from Brian Cornell to Michael Fiddelke, questions swirl about whether evolutionary tweaks can spark the next chapter for this storied retailer. The…
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The Power Of Indirect Influence, Criteria, Frameworks, and Agendas
One of the most important parts of any trial is the judge’s instructions to the jury. Through those, a judge will explain the relevant legal principles and definitions, clarify the…
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The Difference Between Cultural, Strategic, Operational, Tactical, And Crisis Leadership
Leadership is about inspiring, enabling and empowering others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Nesting within that, CEOs, senior leaders, middle managers,…
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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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