Many years ago, I was elected president of our company’s field leadership association. Brimming with new ideas about how to make our company better, I attended a strategic planning meeting between field officers and company executives and felt my innovative contributions were dazzling. On the drive home I asked...
The Big Lies of Strategy by Roger L. Martin - You don’t need a 100-page strategic plan. Strategy is actually about making five specific choices. - THOSE WHO KNOW ME WELL know that I have a love/hate relationship with all things strategic. On the one hand, I hate ‘strategic planning’...
The Collapse of Strategy and Its Implications - “Strategy” might be one of the most elemental parts of a business. And the most misunderstood. Perpetuating the problem is the proliferation of corporate strategy groups and “strategy” job titles that involve very little strategy in the economic sense of the term...
The Compound Effect: Jump start Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy is, not only a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller, it is a straight-talking practical guide to setting clear goals and doing the “stuff” that needs to get done in order to...
9 Types of People Who Never Succeed at Work - Social skills are becoming more critical than experience and knowledge for success in the workplace. Harvard economist David Deming studied workplace tasks from 1980 to the present day and found tasks that emphasise social skills grew by a whopping...
It's not fear that gets in the way of daring leadership. It's our armour. I’ve spent twenty years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and I recently completed a seven-year study on brave leadership that was built around the following driving question: What, if anything, about the way people are...
I often tell my clients that a daily practice of self-reflection strengthens self-awareness and will enable them to make better choices. Leaders who work with me to shape and commit to such a practice are better able to tap into their highest potential for creativity, vitality, and success.
We loved this Fast Company article because it is interesting to look at the perception difference between children and adults. When adults are asked to draw a leader, they draw a man. But what about kids?
Keytoe workers are going to decide upon each other’s salary through an app. In this app, we can rate each other on a daily basis on one score only: how you feel about your colleagues. The score you receive, and the revenue and costs of the company for that month, determine...
In 1997, Netscape was the browser of choice; Motorola StarTAC dominated cell phone popularity; the Apple PowerBook led in innovative laptops; cordless home phones emerged; Sony PlayStation with a 128k memory card was state of the art; Windows 95 was released. And I published the book Human Resource Champions,...