Blogs
The Five Stages of Building Alignment
Prior to (and during) strategy execution, creating alignment is crucial to the realization of your strategy. Given how often alignment breaks down, what it really…
How Do You Embed Breakthrough Performance? Stop Agreeing Start Aligning
In this kickoff to our 12-part series on the qualities of high-performing teams, we examine how a team’s search for ‘agreement’ derails breakthrough performance. Wasted…
Calling Out What’s Predictable Enables Breakthrough Performance
In Part 2 of our 12-part series on the qualities of high-performing teams, we examine how getting clear on ‘what’s predictable’ opens up possibilities for…
Communicating Breakdowns Is The Access To Breakthrough Performance
In Part 5 of our 12-part series on the qualities of high-performing teams we examine the difference between problems and breakdowns, and how to lead…
Where People Collaborate, Breakthrough Performance Is Possible
In this sixth installment of our 12-part series on the characteristics of breakthrough performance, we examine the importance of having people experience autonomy and collaboration…
Culture Change: A Two-Step Process
The problem with culture change Why has culture change been so hard to master thus far? Everybody has heard the phrase, “culture beats strategy.” It…
What Culture Change Looks Like
What is culture? Of all corporate initiatives, culture change is commonly cited as one of the hardest to visualize, quantify, and track. Is culture change synonymous…
Completion Is As Important As Starting
“We knew a project ended when it stopped showing up on our agenda.” Launches, kick-offs, kick-starts, startups, jump-starts, ramp-ups, rollouts…I could go on. What we…
Transformational Leaders Listen First, Speak Second
Imagine yourself at your desk, late in the day, and you just realized you have a breakdown on your hands. If you are like most…
Honoring Promises Produces Breakthrough Results
We typically think of breakthroughs as something born in a flash of brilliance. It’s a powerful new insight or a revolutionary new product that catapults us…
Transform Your Leadership By Asking
“What do you need” In most organizations, most of the time, people focus on securing what they need from those they report to. I recently…
How To Integrate Design Thinking Inside Your Enterprise Right Now
“In school, we’d take field trips to hospitals, and we were taught to become the patient,” Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb recalls from his days…
