Transformational Leadership
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…
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…
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…
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…
Supervision: Part II—People vs. Process
In the first part of this series, we established that good supervisors can see through walls and silos between departments in large companies, thinking through the…
Avoid Falling Victim To The Pitfalls Of Ineffective Teams
It is said that no man is an island, and in the case of top-performing companies, no singular employee overshadows the power and effectiveness of…
The Case For Accountability
I am always intrigued by examining two competing companies – same industry, similar in size, essentially operating within the same business model – that produce…
Global Leadership: Part IV—Practices For Operating
In our previous posts, we declared that forging a shared purpose and identity across multinational teams, paired with clarity of communication — via multilingualism — and accountability via authenticity are…
Global Leadership: Part II—Clarity Of Mission
In the first part of this blog series, we established that global leaders are citizens of the world—this not beholden to the identity of the…
