Category: Team & Culture
How Organizing Concepts Can Improve Your Interviews, Executive Onboarding, And Change Leadership
Organizing concepts are the connectors between your thinking and strategy and what you’re trying to communicate. They help interviewers remember your most relevant strengths, motivation and preferences. They help you…
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Lessons In The Power Of Organizing Concepts From The Las Vegas Democratic Debate
Last night’s Democratic debate was a fire fight with verbal sparring in all directions. While everyone watching saw things through their own filters, it was clear that some of the…
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How The Best Leaders Enable Confidence To Triumph Over Fear
Michele PW (Pariza Wacek) has reframed the Stockdale Paradox in a way that can help all of us. Her fundamental premise is that “fear is false evidence appearing real.” It’s…
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The Stages Of Onboarding Into A New Job
Leadership transitions are some of the toughest challenges people face – professionally and personally. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Often, those failures are the…
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How To Win With A Production-Focused Strategy
As described in my earlier article on What It Takes To Accelerate Through A Strategic Inflection Point, if there is a change in your situation or your ambitions, you need to…
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Leverage These Bare Minimum Strategic Plan Elements At The Very Least
As we head into the new decade in a couple of weeks, think before you act – at least a little. Certainly, the more complex and sophisticated your organization, the…
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Are Business Pivots Harder Than Football Pivots? Learn from the Steelers
Have you ever experienced challenges in your business that you resigned yourself to missing your financial plan? Teams in the National Football League encounter the moment where they are playing…
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Why Where To Play Must Be Your First Choice
Strategy is choosing what not to do. Choosing not to focus is choosing to be average at everything. And average does not win. The latest research shows yet again that…
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Why Leveraging Complementary Strengths Requires Accepting Complementary Weaknesses
No one ever argues against the concept of leveraging complementary strengths. Yet few really do it. Why? Because it only really works if you believe that someone else’s strength offsets…
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