How To Keep Your Organization From Becoming A Soap Opera
the one thing you must do to keep your organization from becoming a soap opera is to keep your focus on your most important external mission – the problem you solve in the world.
How To Ratchet Up The ‘Current Best You’ In Pursuit Of Mastery
It is not about achieving mastery because if you think you’ve reached the peak, the only way to go is down. It is about being content with the healthy discontentment of those committed to the never-ending pursuit of mastery
Why You Should Take A Differentially Good Approach To Business Development
Invest more in prospects and customers that do good for others, help you get stronger at what you’re good at, or are good for you. Invest less in those that are less good.
Simplify Planning So All Can COPE: Context, Objectives, Priorities, Enablers
COPE works as a simplifying framework to add discipline at different levels and time-spans by working through context, objectives, priorities, and enablers.
Relooking At Why You Should Never Make Or Take Job Counter Offers
In my earlier article on this subject, I argued that job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions and are almost never successful. Either people don’t take them or they do take them and end up leaving relatively quickly thereafter. Along the way,...
What To Do With People In The Wrong Roles
What you should do with people in the wrong roles depends. If they don’t have the motivation, fit or strengths required for your organization, move them out. If they do, move them over or up as appropriate. Recall The Only Six Viable Approaches To Talent Management —...
Relooking At Three Priorities In Ensuring A Smooth Merger Or Acquisition
One of my early articles for this publication was about AMN’s CEO Susan Salka and Three Priorities in Ensuring a Smooth Merger or Acquisition. Those priorities were 1) early conversations with all, 2) a well-resourced integration management office and 3) staying close...
How To Make The Best Use Of The Fuzzy Front And Back Ends Of Virtual Meetings
You can’t. They don’t exist. Instead, find ways to compensate for their absence. By now, we all know virtual meetings are more efficient than live meetings – mostly because of the savings in travel time, stress and money. Despite the inevitable distractions from...
Relooking At Beyond 10,000 Hours: The Constant Pursuit Of Mastery
One of my early articles for this publication looked Beyond 10,000 Hours: The Constant Pursuit Of Mastery. The main point was about embracing your own unique talent, developing it into a strength, and devoting yourself to a cause. It’s worth relooking at and updating...
Relooking At The 5 Most Important Questions For BRAVE Leaders
One of my early articles for this publication over a decade ago was The Five Most Important Questions for BRAVE Leaders. Originally designed as a way to look at culture, it’s also a framework for leadership, looking at five questions across the acronym – Behaviors,...
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