Why Most CEOs Are Not Strategic Personally

The problem is that CEOs see themselves as general managers. True. Their #1 job is to own the vision and the values, and the strategic, organizational and operating processes.

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Why Aligning Strategy And Culture Is Theoretically Easy But Practically So Challenging

Make sure your strategy, culture, organization and operating bias are in sync. Easy to say. Hard to do

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How To Keep Your Systems From Impeding Progress

Why leaders must spend as much time thinking, talking about and acting outside-in as possible. Those following you will put their energy where you put your attention.

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Reinventing The Missing Piece (You) In Leading Through A Point Of Inflection

To make the impact required to lead through a point of inflection, you have to put down your brush hacker and climb the tree.

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Applying The Hippocratic Oath To Data – First Do No Harm

Every organization has a choice. They can turn a blind eye; they can become privacy compliant; they can invest to build a brand of trust and transparency.

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Lessons From Xerox’s Undignified Death Throes

Xerox has lost control over its core body functions. It looks like John Visentin is not going to survive his Hot Landing.

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How Directed Iteration Brings Order To Creative Idea Generation

Larger organizations tend to be better at evolutionary innovation and entrepreneurs tend to be better at revolutionary innovation.

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How To Get People To Actually Follow Your Vision And Values

As the CEO, owner, leader, you must own the vision and values. And you must own them all the time.

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How CEOs Best Lead Strategic, Organizational And Operational Processes

The best CEOs deploy differential delegation based on the strength of their team and complexity of their situation.

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