Category: Team & Culture
How To Light A Fire Under Your Team When Things Are Going Well
Three Steps to Motivate a Team in Good Times Lessons for others taking over a team doing well: Get clear on what’s going right and the organizational strengths that have…
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Risk & Reward: Does Your CEO Take the Bet?
Choosing where to play is the CEO’s big bet. He or she must lead the strategic direction of the company by examining the business environment, organizational history and recent results.…
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IBM, Ritz-Carlton and Yum! Brands Empower Front Line Employees… Do You?
The strongest leaders get that it’s not about them. It’s about the others. Whether you call them “first followers” or “front line,” leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to…
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Leading with a Clear Vision
Align everyone around a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Execute against that purpose on a societal, business and individual level with the discipline to keep the efforts separate. Leverage the…
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Beyond 10,000 Hours: The Constant Pursuit of Mastery
Robert Greene's new book “Mastery" makes a compelling case that mastery is earned, not granted. He describes three distinct phases of the journey, I) Apprenticeship, II) Creative-Active and III) Mastery.…
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Managing the Evolution of Your Start-Up’s Corporate Culture
In many ways, culture is a shared set of “BRAVE” preferences. People joining a start up need to buy in to the founders’ preferences. Of course, culture evolves – but…
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Top 10 Dos and Don’ts for Onboarding a New Chief Operating Officer
Chief Operating Officers can make a world of difference - if their onboarding sets them up for success. If you're bringing a Chief Operating Officer (COO) in to work for…
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Does Your Organization Need an Attitude Change?
An attitude adjustment is often the pivot point for changing an organization’s behaviors and relationships in order to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing industry. Here are the core…
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Leverage Service as a Strategic Weapon with Attitude and Discipline
Leveraging service as a strategic weapon requires the right attitude and superior discipline. Attitude is key. Only organizations with a “service first” mentality can even hope to create a service…
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