Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dr. Ginny Bianco-Mathis (and Mitch Simon, but you’ll only hear Dr. Mathis and me in the clip that I’m sharing with this blog post). Dr. Mathis and Mitch co-host the...
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For teams to execute strategy brilliantly, a leader must be clear. Clear about the vision (the direction). Clear about the strategy (the way to move closer toward the vision) in a way that each person can understand the role...
You Can Create a Workplace Context Where People Thrive, and Execute Brilliantly A critical part of a leader’s role is to build others up. Great leaders are highly skilled at this. Good leaders sometimes give up because they...
Strategies change. At least they should—in order to even just keep up with the change around us. This series addresses Alignment. How can you align your people with strategy? How do you know when strategy must change? (even when...
What does teamwork really mean? Would the U.S. economy be where it is today if we really had this? Ok, the U.S. economy is for another post. This post is about us, and how in bad times we are...
Have you ever leaned toward avoidance when you haven’t delivered because you “know” the person you must speak to is going to be disappointed? Getting past this block can be difficult. Here’s our “wow” for this week: This...
I really have to say “Wow!” We have had a great show of team work this week. As you may know, we have two themes going this year: For our front lines the theme is “Visibility!” and involves gaining...