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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…
Disruptive Leadership Doesn’t Start With What’s Broken, It Starts With What Inspires
Many of the leaders I work with are confronted by the challenge of how to elevate the performance of their direct reports; the team of…
What Is A Commitment-Centered Organization?
What gives rise to our behavior…the actions we engage in day in and day out? It’s easy to say that people in an organization act to…
In An Era of Remote Working, Formalize Your Leadership.
It’s next to the oft-mentioned water cooler, or in conversations had in passing in the hallways, that much of work seems to get done. Leaders…
Hold People Accountable. They’ll Love You For It.
The common vision for disruptive leadership often includes a leader with charisma, vision, and passion for their work. Those characteristics are sometimes present in people…
Why Transformational Leadership is Reinventing the Markets
Transformational leaders do not adapt to the market—they invent the rules. Whether you call it benchmarking or best practices, many companies watch and emulate what…
Sometimes you just need to request a breakthrough.
My clients are good people—they care about their teams. They don’t want to burden them with too much work or make unreasonable requests of them.…
The Business Rules Have Changed. Are You Still In The Game?
All the business rules have changed. In the past, you could master your market and win with few interruptions. Now there are competitors around every corner…
From Aerobie To AeroPress – How Culture Enables Strategy
About a year ago, I discovered for myself the simple joy of espresso. I quickly gave up drip coffee for lattes, and lattes for espressos…
