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One of our clients once lamented that, “Everything would be different if I were the boss, and then I’d have ‘the say.’” Nearly every chief executive…

The Myth of Certainty Decades of financial management and the need to provide some indication of a company’s future worth and ability to retain or…

You saw the person’s lips moving and you heard the words, “I’ll get that to you by Thursday noon.” The trouble is you knew the…

Is there any annoyance in an organization that people gripe about more than bad email habits? Yes, okay, break-room messes are probably at the top…

In our previous discussion, it was revealed that, yes; you too are a designer — regardless of your job title or function. That said, one of…

Previously, we established that those of us who seek to solve problems by creating impactful solutions, regardless of job title or function is, intrinsically, designers. We…

Give complacency the pink slip. The first of this four-part Breakthrough Performance series explains why business results are stalled by false assumptions. When business results…

Before exploring the hallmarks of design thinking, let’s first consider this: Who is a designer? Typically — early in the process of innovation consulting — when I…

Though seemingly counter-intuitive, leadership is an after-the-fact phenomenon; it is the label for something, but it is not the something. In the moment, there is not…

Be wary (and perhaps a bit suspicious) when communication and/or leadership are determined to be the root cause of the ineffectiveness of an organization. One reason reasoning for this…

We have all been there: another conference room, another meeting with the team. This time though, the boss is here. It’s weird, though… the conversation…

Executives have a way of being that makes them executives. That doesn’t mean that everyone with a big title has the being of an executive, but look around…