One of the things that I observe over and over again is just how much help highly successful people get from others.
What ever they are doing, they seem to have a vast cross-functional team of people at many levels, from many organizations, who are part of an unofficial project team that helps them achieve their objective. Read More
I read a lot of good and useful books that I generally recommend, but most of them did not make this list.
These are the few books that when I read them, fundamentally changed my perspective on business and leadership forever after. Read More
Now that the dust has settled a bit about Marissa Meyer’s controversial “no working from home” policy at Yahoo!, I thought I’d weigh in.
Many companies provide work-from-home options. Employees love it.
But many managers struggle with it. They ask me about this all the time — How do you optimize motivation AND productivity? Read More
Lesson from the dogsAbout a year ago, I went dogsledding in Canmore, Canada.
It was great. And ever since then, when I have a discussion with an executive about their organization, I think back to this experience.
I’ve said this before, there is no more important thing you can do as a business leader than to build the right team. Read More
Throughout my whole career I kept hearing discussions about consensus vs. command and they always rubbed me the wrong way…
What actually works was never such a mystery to me.
The problem is that people would talk about consensus or command as the only two choices for management style. Read More
Delegating is not just about assigning work.
Delegating is about making sure that the right work gets done at the right level, and making your team more capable.
As a leader, you always need to think about building a more capable team. Read More
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on
LEADING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
If you missed it you can
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(which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.)
(more information below)
Over the past year, my work with clients has focused me on the part of business that is about getting your organization to execute. Read More
Awhile back I wrote an article about how BMW “pseudo-service” repels customers.
For those that did not read the prior article, the gist is that as an owner of a new BMW your choice is to get free service from BMW that you dislike (because of the awful and useless, “give me a 5” survey process I described) or to get good, paid-for, service from someone else. Read More
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on
SUCCEEDING WITH VIRTUAL & REMOTE TEAMS
If you missed it you can
Download the Podcast
or
Download the whole Webinar
(which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.)
(more information below)
Here is what we talked about:
In business today, it’s important to recognize that it’s not just our companies that are global. Read More
Are you leading the team you need?
Or leading the team you have?
As soon as you embark on something new or strategic, in those first moments you facing doing the new thing with the same people. Read More
