Leadership Mindset
Coaching: Part I — Slam Dunk vs. Lame Duck
To understand the power of effective executive coaching, let’s think in terms of professional sports. Consider the case of two of the most talented NBA…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Boardroom Basics
The key to building and maintaining a strong board? Agility. Lockheed Martin board member Ilene S. Gordon, BoardQuest founder Patrick Dailey and Insigniam partner Jon…
Playing Her Cards Right
Learn four crucial leadership insights from author/poker champion Maria Konnikova.
Browser History: Know Thyself
These leadership books speak to our era, offering new ways to think about organizational processes, self-enlightenment and white people’s subconscious thoughts on race.
