There is a specific and unfortunately common type of corporate behavior where people substitute sounding smart in a meeting for actually contributing work.
People will come to meetings with lots of insight and data – and good intentions. Read More
Each Monday until the launch of my upcoming book MOVE, I’ll be sharing an important idea from the book. This week: Long Term Goals are Hard for Humans
Oh, wait…that’s the problem! Read More
Each Monday until the launch of my upcoming book MOVE, I’ll be sharing an important idea from the book.
This week: Good and Bad Measures
Many managers struggle to know if they are measuring the right things. Read More
Each Monday until the launch of my upcoming book MOVE, I’ll be sharing an important idea from the book.
This week: The Value of Unstructured Conversation: Don’t trade a comfortable moment for a slow moving train wreck
I hear this from executives all the time.
“I want to see more urgency.”
Urgency is one of those troubling words that is often thrown about, but not grounded in something do-able. Read More
Each Monday until the launch of my upcoming book MOVE, I’ll be sharing an important idea from the book.
This Week: Support or Sabotage? Reduce Your Personal Risk
This Week: Telling Does NOT Equal Communicating
It’s kind of funny, when a leader realizes that people “aren’t getting it,” typically I find there is an inverse relationship between the level of emphasis an executive will use to say, “but I was very clear” and how much has actually been internalized by their audience! Read More
