Tag: leadership skills
Intuit’s Current and Former CEO Drive Value Proposition In Sync
Make sure you’re getting the full lesson here about what makes for strong burning imperative. The best are: Customer-focused, drive a customer-relevant value proposition Sharply defined and crystal clear to all…
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Break Scope-Resources-Time Constraints by Creating Resources
While I stand by my earlier thoughts on the importance of time management and delegation in onboarding, in today's economy we're seeing more and more cases of bosses telling their…
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GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s Long-Term View 10 Years In
GE has long been a source of strong general managers. That’s still important. Now Immelt is putting a premium on deep functional and business knowledge as well. Do you remember…
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Plans are Not Made to be Followed
We spend the vast majority of our time helping new leaders create and implement 100-day action plans. Over the past decade or so, I can not think of a…
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Procter & Gamble’s John Pepper Votes With His Feet
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240"] Flickr[/caption] One of the most moving moments of the U.S. Congress's protracted debt ceiling shenanigans was Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords return from her gunshot injuries to vote.…
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What We Can Learn About Negotiating From the Great Compromiser
Be careful about how you engage with the organization’s existing business context and culture. Crossing the need for change based on the context and the cultural readiness for change can…
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Are Obama, Boehner, and Cantor going to follow their principles off the cliff?
The burning imperative is a sharply defined, intensely shared, and purposefully urgent understanding from each of the team members of what they are “supposed to do, now.” Get this created…
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Job #1 of a Leader: Show Up
While everything communicates, many won’t believe what you say. They’ll wait to see what you do. When leaders truly believe something is important they don’t trust in words alone.
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Take a hard look at the role sort in your organization
What’s different is the idea of a shared accountability to the mission owner with each functional expert taking the lead in their own area of expertise.
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