


How Your Chief of Staff Can Give You Increased Leverage
Your chief of staff can give you increased leverage by managing you, priorities, programs and projects, and communication. Most leaders are unbalanced. They are relatively stronger or weaker across strategy, organization and operations. Those relatively weaker...
The Keys To Level Four Delegation – The Heart Of Leadership
Leadership is all about inspiring and enabling others, epitomized by level four delegation. The keys to doing that well are 1) direction, 2) resources, 3) bounded authority, and 4) accountability. Recall the framework from my article, The Art of Delegating: Do well...
How To Dance The Board Two-Step To Increase Your Board Of Directors’ Leverage
Ken Chenault’s approach to board management + Bryan Smith’s approach to persuasion = the board two-step. Bryan Smith lays out five levels of persuasion in “The Fifth Discipline” Tell – I’m the traffic policeman on the corner telling you to detour right. ...
In Praise Of Matrix Organizations
Done badly, matrices really do overly complicate things, blur decision rights, and cause mass confusion. And most of the time, they are a cop out decision by senior leadership trying not to offend anyone. But if you are going to be best in class at delivery or...