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Taking a Stand to Live Powerfully Through This Time of Rapid Change
In this period of fast-moving changes in what we have taken for granted in our lives, it may be easy to fall into a sentiment…
Let’s Shoot TINA!
The Case For This Crime Really, this is not a call for homicide… If you have not heard about her, TINA stands for “There Is…
Winning Over Complacent Workers
We worked with a European company that was having trouble with its team members at an industrial site. The company had scaled back its investment…
Innovation Isn’t The Problem. Execution Is.
Innovation isn’t easy. Not in the least. But it’s not usually the innovative idea that companies have a problem with. It’s the execution. There are plenty of…
Communication: Are You Tuned In To The Right Channel?
Here’s a common complaint: “Senior managers never read their emails.” Senior managers sort through a great deal of input from a large number of people…
Making Results Happen Even During Mergers And Acquisitions
Just be honest. That’s a simple rule but one that leaders all too often fail to live by, especially during mergers and acquisitions—and most of…
Global Leadership: Part III—Accountability Of Teams
In our previous posts, we established that forging a shared purpose and identity across multinational teams, paired with clarity of communication — via multilingualism — is essential to being…
Ten No-Brainers for User-Centered Design
The Digital Agency Network’s design thinking conference brought together some extraordinary design leaders and executives from some of the United States’ largest companies and the…
Global Leadership: Part I — Shared Purpose
Take a quick look at the top 10 companies on the Fortune Global 500 list—with combined average revenues of $371.31 billion — and not only…
Use Design Thinking And Boost Revenues By 40 Percent
Once thought of as a nebulous, murky approach to solving a problem, business leaders have embraced design thinking as a creative way to innovate services…
Your Leadership Speaks Volumes When You Don’t Speak Up
Something was wrong. That much became clear just minutes after we walked into the lobby of our client’s offices. The large, publicly traded computer company…
Change Leadership: The Pitfall Of Bell Cows
One of the pitfalls of any large-scale change initiative is ignoring some of the most powerful people in an organization: the Bell Cows. For an enterprise-wide…