Transformational Leadership

Wayne Gretzky And Tips For Breakthrough Performance
What do Wayne Gretzky and I have in common? Being performers. We can learn so much about improving our performance in business by studying great…

Cross-Functional Cooperation and Performance: Part Two
Part One covered some of the major cultural and structural roadblocks to cross-functional work contributing to enterprise transformation. In Part Two, we list some of…

How You Can Help Your Company Transformation: Part Two
In part two of this series we take a second look at the question, why do some companies succeed at transformation while others do not?…

Enterprise Accountability: ‘Send It Back!’
If companies want to compete in the future, the C-suite has to steer workers toward moving forward and letting go of past perceptions. Part two…

Three Ways Volunteering Enhances Leadership
Volunteers are celebrated around the world on “International Volunteers Day” and this event triggered some questions for myself: Why do I volunteer? Am I clear…

Three Recommendations To Stay Focused On Your Goals, Despite the Circumstances
The COVID-19 situation is a harsh way to test our resilience and response to global events affecting all industries and individuals everywhere. However, we always…

Leading When You’re Not in Charge
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…

Leadership Is An Explanation; Action Is What Matters
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…

Communication & Leadership: The Two Empty Holes Of What Ails You
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…

What Makes An Executive An Executive
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…

The Executive’s Being Is Not What They’re Doing
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…

When Being A Change Agent Becomes A Personal Transformation Adventure
This is the second post in a series, Global Leadership Development: a Transformation Journey. Access the first post here: Leadership Development for Everyone in the Company…Yes, for…