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A Leadership Culture Is a Competitive Advantage
It may be an age thing but I really don’t like being told what to do, do you? I have never found it efficient to…
Strategic Frontiers: Part I – Charting the Horizons
For those of you who are not familiar with the name Dick Fosbury, you may recognize the maneuver—a la strategy innovation—that made him famous: the Fosbury Flop.…
The Three Factors For Effective Management Performance
Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with many technology companies to achieve management results, and rather quickly, I recognized a reoccurring pattern.…
Enrolling Others In Your Transformational Vision
In our two previous discussions, we established that transformation is distinguished, in part, by the ability to venture into the unknown. In light of this, the transformational…
Leading an Enterprise Transformation: Part II — It Gets Messy
In the first part of this series, we established that having guts—based on a clear understanding of what you’re getting into—as well as the ability to…
Leading an Enterprise Transformation: Part I — Got Guts?
By now, you’ve read the writing on the wall, and you are probably familiar with what enterprise transformation entails—and what it can achieve for your organization…
Simplification…. It’s Complicated!
Do you have a “simplification” objective this year? Or does your company have “Simplification” as a strategic axis for the next three years? How many of…
Breakthrough Performance Poised To Conquer Pluto
On December 6, a piano-sized space probe was awoken from a nine-year slumber during which it traveled some 3 billion miles. Dubbed New Horizons, the probe has entered…
Compact Breakthrough From Skunk Works
When it was announced late last year, it was billed as a breakthrough that could transform civilization as we know it. It measures just 7…
Benevolence in Business….What For?
A conference organized by the economic journal Les Echos in Paris explored how benevolence can serve business performance. Is the selflessness implied by the idea…
The Leadership Intensive: Part II – Creating A New Paradigm
In my previous blog, we dismantled the established paradigms of leadership—title or position, characteristics and qualities, or the fact that leaders have followers—and illustrated how self-limiting…
The Leadership Intensive: Part I – Dismantling Paradigms
In 1962, American physicist and scientific philosopher Thomas Kuhn released his seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He coined a phrase—a big idea, really—that was…