Moving Beyond Functional Leader To Valued Executive Leadership Team Member
Just because you’ve got a CXO title and are in the room where it happens at executive leadership team meetings does not necessarily mean you’re adding the right value. Those that do, wear two hats. First, they manage their function to deliver near-term...
What Tyson’s Fifth CEO In Five Years Must Do To Earn Trust
Tyson is replacing its CEO after eight months, accelerating its trend to shorter and shorter tenures of CEOs at Tyson. The new CEO, Donnie King needs to 1) Get at the ground truth. 2) Make no sudden changes. 3) Build capabilities step-by-step. Tyson CEO tenures have...
Deciphering The Real Priorities By Looking At How Leaders Allocate Their Time And Resources
You know they lie. They may not mean to, but almost everybody at some point says one thing and does something else. They lie to you. They lie to themselves. So, if you want to figure out what they really care about, look at what they do, not what they say. Look at how...
How JPMorgan And Your Organization Need To Improve Shared Decisions
The impact of poorly shared decisions is often so painful that many avoid them at all costs, ensuring someone always has final decision rights. You can go one step further by deploying decision-making frameworks to help the best ideas win instead of the most powerful...
Why You Need Complementary And Not Complimentary Advisors And Collaborators
If all your advisors and collaborators do is compliment you and your thinking, you’re not going to change, learn, grow, or come up with the best ideas and make the best possible choices. That requires advisors and collaborators with diverse leadership approaches and...
How AB InBev’s CEO Transition Highlights The Need For Different Types Of CEOs In Different Situations
Carlos Brito built AB InBev into the world's biggest brewer over the past 15 years. Now, at age 61, he’s handing the reigns over to Michel Doukeris. In the words of InBev chair, Martin Barrington, “Doukeris' expertise in brands, consumers and innovation meant the...
Why The Winning Path From Strategies To Plans Runs Through Enablers And Capabilities
Many of my own personal management frameworks were imprinted into my brain during my years at Procter & Gamble. One of the most fundamental is that plans should flow from strategies. It was right then. It’s still right. But it’s theoretically elegant and...
Your Employees Are Returning! Time For A Culture Change
For the most part, cultures evolve with the speed of Teutonic plates. They’re sticky, hard to change. But, every-so-once-in-a-while there are earthquake-like sudden shifts: mergers or spin-offs – or a pandemic. As people return to the office, or not, figure out when...
The Top Five Executive Onboarding And Leadership Ideas From My First 700 Forbes Articles
Reflecting on my first 700 articles for Forbes, five ideas seem particularly helpful. I invite any of you to go back through those articles and give me any alternate views. Converge. Then Evolve. Be an other-focused leader. Own your own choices. Choose...
Why Good Enough Is Generally Good Enough
Focus has two sides – what you’re going to focus on and what you are not going to focus on. People generally do a better job of picking what to do than they do in picking what not to do. The trouble is that resources are limited and you need to put less time, effort...
Former Coca-Cola CEO, Neville Isdell On Courage, Conviction, And Respect
In last week’s article on Decision Enabling versus Decision Making, I referenced one of my personal heroes from my time at Coca-Cola, Neville Isdell. He read that article and reached out to me – because that’s what leaders like he and P&G’s John Pepper do. That...
Why And How You Should Switch To Decision-Enabling From Decision-Making
If decisions have to go through you, you’re the choke point at the bottom of the funnel, controlling the flow. Conversely, if you provide clear direction, resources, bounded authority, and accountability, enabling others to make decisions, you turn the funnel into a...
Mastering The Seven Stages of Executive Onboarding
40% of new leaders get fired, forced out, or quit within their first 18 months because they fail to fit, deliver, or adjust to changes down the road. The main problems through the seven stages of executive onboarding can be solved by thinking marketing, selling,...
How Tactical Capacity Bridges the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
Highly effective teams and organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution by empowering each member and communicating effectively so they can adjust to changing conditions almost seamlessly. Organization and team performance are based on aligning people,...
Helping Colleagues With Post-Covid Stress Disorder (PCSD)
Post-Covid Stress Disorder is a sub-set of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder caused by the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Leave treating its symptoms to others. Put your efforts into helping colleagues improve their stress reduction skills, and regain self-confidence...
Lessons On Following A Sacrificed Change Agent From McKinsey’s New CEO, Bob Sternfels
Most change agents don’t survive their own change. The job of those following them is to help the organization get over the trauma inflicted by the change agent and then move forward benefitting from the most important of those changes. This requires an emotional, rational, and then inspirational approach.
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