Two questions for you:
1. Do you have an initiative that you talk about as being really important to your business, but you are not making progress on it?
2. Have you been talking about it (without making progress) for a year or more? Read More
I’ve recently been writing about business leadership and strategy, and I began thinking about something one of my mentors taught me about being an executive.
He said, “the most important decision you make is when you choose WHO.” Read More
This is not a deep psychology dive on ego and power in business leadership, which is a huge topic…
But I want to share some practical observations about how good leaders build a powerful team by sharing power and others build themselves up (falsely) by imagining they can hoard power personally. Read More
I was doing a series of leadership workshops last week and one of the things we talked about was creating a thank you habit in the organization.
What I mean by a Thank You Habit is to make it known to everyone that the organization wants to acknowledge good work. Read More
In this month’s webinar we talked about how to optimize your communications to drive action in your organization.
HIGH VALUE COMMUNICATIONS
Listen or download the webinar to learn more.
Useful assumptions: It’s useful to assume as a starting point, that people don’t listen to you, don’t believe you and don’t trust you. Read More
Recently, I have found myself re-telling a story I read a long time ago, in a leadership book, that really stuck with me.
It was about a boy who had a summer job at a bank. I’m paraphrasing…
One time the CEO of the bank asked the boy, “So, how do you like your job”? Read More
This is third article in my series of What Good General Managers DO.
Aritlces in the series so far:
People
Listen: Stay Connected to Reality
Process
The Gap Between Committed and Done
Failure & Motivation (today)
Profit
Communicating
Many organizations struggle to get things done, as promised, on time. Read More
Today I want to address a topic on process. But I want to re-label the word process to be “make sure to get stuff done”.
I am never a fan of process for process sake, but I am a big fan of taking the chaos and drama out of executing. Read More
Last week I kicked off a series of articles about what good general managers do.
I keep finding myself talking to CEOs who are concerned that their new general managers (also directors and VP’s) just aren’t getting that they need to be working in different way now that they are in an executive level job. Read More
Organizations waste a lot of time communicating badly.
They fall into the trap of talking about things that have already been decided, or not talking when input is genuinely needed.
Executives don’t know all the answers (even if they act like they do). Read More
