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High Performance Executive Meetings
Running highly effective meetings is challenging, and it’s a “must do” for leaders who strive to lead by example. Executive leaders ask me to sit in and observe what they do and how they do in in order to get new insights on how to organize and lead better executive meetings. Here…
You Can’t Lead a Divided House
I was enjoying a drink in the local beer garden near our office, it’s what one does on a warm summer day in Bavaria. For those that haven’t experienced the beer garden atmosphere, its gemütlich, a German word that doesn’t translate well into English, yet it means something like a cozy, comfortable setting.…
Tools Don’t Make a Good Carpenter (or Leader)
A multitude of tools (some simple and some sophisticated) are available to executives and hr professionals. There are tools and inventories to identify preferences and strengths, team capabilities and strategic effectiveness. Hundreds of models, personality inventories and well-intentioned leadership processes attempt to created normed leaders. Normed leaders won’t help you create breakthrough results.…