After decades of coaching many CEOs and senior leaders, I’ve learned one skill that truly separates a good from a great leader is: where they spend most of their thinking time. We all tend to do the things that come the most naturally to us. Some are analytically trained and think like a strategist [...]
Defining roles in an organization for every single employee is mandatory. Those that don’t operate at their peril. The risk of not operating with clearly defined roles — is employees' rolling right out of the organization! This was far less common just five years ago. Still, with all the evaluations and workplace changes employees and employers [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if we could decide just six things each day that would lead to our success? Well, we can. The result of these critical questions would mean that instead of getting stuck in a strategic challenge, we could find a way to unclog, unblock, and release ourselves from what holds us back. [...]
A high-level perspective can reveal your organization’s parts and pieces and can assist you in identifying what is in alignment and what isn’t. Of all the principle foundations you could choose to begin, vision is often the missing dimension that prevents an otherwise effective organization from excelling. Perhaps your organization has excellent products and service support [...]
When an organization has far too many strategic initiatives and projects underway, it will overload the organization’s capacity to produce them. Michael Porter wrote, “If the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do then the essence of execution is not doing it.” That might sound simple, but the fact is most organizations [...]
“Can’t see the forest for the trees,” C.S. Lewis famously said. This quote has taken other forms, “Can’t see the forest through the trees” is one. But the core meaning remains, when you look at a complex situation, it’s quite easy to get lost in the details and miss the solution to your challenge. [...]
Dr. Wayne Dyer is an American author and speaker who said, “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.” How true! Rethinking decisions is even more difficult than starting from a clean slate. That’s because it’s far more complex the second or third time. In fact, I [...]
Deciding to rethink what you eat to lose weight is a fairly straight-forward process. It might be challenging if you really like certain ‘food groups’ — and you know which ones I’m talking about — but determining which ones to continue or stop eating is fairly easy. However, when it comes to your business strategy [...]
If you're anything like me, you tend to put off the more difficult things and work on the easy things first. Of course, there is a lot of debate about whether this is the best way to attack our projects, but we all tend to form habits that we find work best. So whatever way [...]