Break The No-win Effectiveness Versus Efficiency Trade-off With Five Priority Levels
The only way to sustain a competitive position over time is to get all clear on your core focus
How RACI Can Make Teams More Effective – If You Go Beyond The Basics
Clarify the approving authority, the difference between consulting and concurring, and when to inform people before or after the fact.
The Critical Difference Between Pressure And Support
Often someone putting pressure on someone else thinks they are being supportive
Relooking At The Importance Of Milestone Management
Compiling milestones is a waste of time if you do not have an efficient, effective and clear process and process owner in place to track them – and avoid the “next week” syndrome.
How Team Charters Drive Impact From Mush
The differences between teams that follow through and don’t are clarity of purpose, availability of resources, and agreement on and acceptance of bounded authority and accountability
The Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Sub-Playbook #5 – Governance
Per our earlier article on A Merger & Acquisition Leader’s Playbook For Success, avoid the traps of 1) poor strategic focus, 2) poor cultural integration and/or 3) poor delivery of synergies by leveraging the full playbook and its seven...
How Next-Level Decision Rights Lead To Better Decisions
Most decision rights conversations are about who gets to make which decisions. Applying next level strategic selling logic takes into account economic, user and technical buyers and coaches, and encourages them to work together to improve instead of block decisions....
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...
Three Keys To Improving Accountability (And Your Leadership)
“Accountability” is on every Corporate Buzzword Bingo sheet. It’s like “strategy,” “synergy”, and “collaboration,” in that it means different things to different people in different situations. Let’s start with Webster’s definition: “Answerable or responsible to the...
Why Every Team Needs A Periodic Scrum – Live And In Person
Not every working group needs to meet live. That’s because not every working group needs to function as a team. Many working groups can do fine working mostly independently, coordinating communication and learning as appropriate. By definition, teams are made up of...
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