How To Set Tactical Leaders Up For Success
Strategies can be theoretically elegant and practically useless without the right tactical leaders. Too many strategic leaders assume if they just set the direction and explain it well enough, everyone will follow them and they will succeed. Wrong. The direction needs...
The Smart Steps To Reboot Your Business Post COVID-19
The Powell Doctrine lays out five keys to using all the force necessary to achieve a decisive and successful ongoing result. The same approach works for you as leaders rebooting after COVID-19: Get to the ground truth. Set a decisive objective. Concentrate decisive...
The Innovation Versus Scale Tradeoff – Not Who, What
The most effective senior leaders are master delegators. Before doing anything themselves, they ask “Who can do this task instead of me?” Minority Business Development Agency head, Henry Childs says that is now the wrong question. Instead, they should ask “What can do this task instead of any of us?” They should do this in areas they can scale while investing in their areas of competitive advantage.
How To Avoid Following Your Strategy Off A Cliff
Determine big business decisions based on what is strategically likely, organizationally likely, and operationally likely. Win with smaller steps, each with a higher likelihood of success than one big leap.
Lessons From Federer v Djokovic: Not All Points Are Created Equal
Marshal your resources to win where, what, and when it matters most.The where to play question is both strategic, tactical and personal.
Lessons For The Rest Of Us From The Deutsche Bank Retreat
Choose to play where it matters and where you can win. Fight only the battles you both care about and can win.
How To Deliver Extraordinary Customer Experience Even When People Don’t Want Your Help
Embrace the challenge, get the components in place, and then orchestrate delivery with the passion your customers deserve.
Why Linda Findley Kozlowski Is Doomed To Fail As Blue Apron’s New CEO
Koslowski may be able to get more people to try the service. But they won’t stick with it.
Five Ways to Increase Creativity and Innovation in Workshops and Meetings
The best meeting and workshop facilitators think of themselves as orchestra conductors. They know that all the music comes from the participants and none from them as conductors.
The Secret Sauce In A Best Current Thinking Approach To Problem Solving
Sharing Best Current Thinking invites others in to collaborate and build on your thinking to solve the problem together.
Email Jeff
Connect
