The wrong peopleAs I am preparing for a session next week with an executive team on Leading Transformation, I got thinking about what blocks organizations from getting done what they intend.
What blocks their business growth?
What keeps them from executing decisively on new things? Read More
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on
Influence & Matrix Management
If you missed it you can
Download the Podcast
or
Download whole Webinar
(which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.)
(more information below)
Here is what we talked about:
All of us, whether we manage people or not, need to get other people to do work for us sometimee — People who have no personal motivation or reason to cooperate. Read More
I got this in a message from a former employee:
When I worked for you, I thought I was Superman.
It was wonderful to get that message.
But additionally, those 10 words sum up for me, in a pretty profound way, what I believe being a good leader is about. Read More
As an executive, your team creates all kinds of reports, spread sheets and slides…
… to plan, run, measure, and report on what you are doing in your operation.
While you need these detailed materials to run your function, please don’t inflict them on others! Read More
Being the smartest one in the room is not easy. 
Really smart people who get to the answer before everyone else get frustrated because:
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on Leading People in Business.
If you missed it you can download the podcast or the whole webinar which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.
(more information below)
Here is what we talked about:
Driving business results, leading change, innovating, and generally moving a business forward requires leading people. 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
In this month’s Business Leadership webinar I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Richard Rumelt about his book:
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters.
Below are some notes from our discussion.
You can download the Webinar here:
DOWNLOAD: GOOD STRATEGY, BAD STRATEGY
(Downloads are free to members of Azzarello Group)
First and foremost, get this book! Read More
Why do so many executives fail when it comes to executing on their strategy?
The problem — their involvement stops with the talking part.
They just expect it “to happen” once they communicate the strategy.
It’s as though they believe that people throughout the organization will suddenly understand what new work they have to do, that resources will be automatically re-assinged without any pain, and individuals will understand how to prioritize new tasks over current work, so it will just get done. Read More
