Tag: leadership
Strategy in Action
This week we ran our 25th CEO Boot Camp since CEO Connection started in 2005. Great group of CEOs and speakers discussed transformational leadership, stewardship, human capital, and communication. …
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The Power of a Stretch Plan
In their imperative workshop, one new leader and his team developed hypotheses around how to grow. They tested those hypotheses and then, later, chose which efforts on which to focus. …
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Transformational Leadership: Big Changes to Big Things
Al Carey once explained the concept of big changes to big things to the P&G alumni group. As he described it, No one ever notices little changes to little…
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Find Ways to Disrupt Yourself
Sometimes being a transformational leader means you have to transform yourself. This often requires finding ways to disrupt your own current thinking. Sometimes your team can help you do this. …
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Value Creation vs. Value Extraction
Maurie Cashman has some interesting thoughts about linking employee goals to an organization's exit strategy. The quotes he's pulled from Lou Dubois' piece in Inc, get at goal setting. I…
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Lead Forward, not Backward
Lead forward in the direction of goodness and not just away from a bad present. It's so easy to trash the past or the present that many get stuck doing…
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Learn, Contribute, Decide, or Waste Time in Meetings
Arguably all anyone does in meetings is learn, contribute, decide, or waste time. Some tips on managing the first three to minimize the fourth: Learn: This is about the transfer…
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"My Team" is an Oxymoron
The two words don't go together. "My" is first person possessive, referring to personal ownership by the speaker. "Team" is a group working together with a shared purpose. The moment…
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Going all-in for "The Game" (Harvard-Yale)
This weekend is the Harvard-Yale game. For any associated with those schools in any way, this is "The Game". Nothing else matters. All year long, these two teams have known…
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