In Need of a Small Candle?
A routine or rut resembles a dark room. You want to get out but you don't know where the door is. If you could only find the door, you could get out of the dark room and disrupt the de-energizing routine that you are in.
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Crafting a Strategic Narrative
Strategic content is important, but it is your strategic narrative that moves people into passionate action. As you and your leadership team share your strategy into the business, spend some time to review and sharpen how you present where your business is going with the people that make it happen.
Leadership Team Reflections for Results
15 days into the new year; are your well-intentioned resolutions already falling off your leadership team agenda? Well intentioned leadership team resolutions can quickly get lost if they aren't anchored in meaningful reflection. Use this structure to make the most of your experiences from the past year so that you…
Dan’s Summer Readings for Reflection & Growth
It is the beginning of August; that is holiday season for some and it’s always reading season in my calendar. I appreciate getting “good reading tips”, so here’ my summer reading suggestions for your reflection and growth. Talk Like Ted by Carmine Gallo Forged in Crisis by Nancy Koehn Buddism…
Creating Hard & Soft in the Executive Space
If people are only showing their best side and real discussions are being replaced with business updates from the team members, the team is missing "soft space opportunities".
Executive Isolation
When executive leaders feel left out of the information loop or get information just before the train is going to hit the wall, it’s often the result of unintentional patterns by executives themselves that lead to the isolation syndrome
What is Your Executive Agenda?
The executive agenda is not a plan. It is the collective output of your leadership team, as experienced by your key stakeholders. These stakeholders include shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers and yes, even competitors.
The Buck Stops Here
In the Fall of 1946, Fred Canfil gave a small sign to President Truman, for his desk. It read: “The Buck Stops Here” Canfil, then United States Marshall and a friend of Truman, had seen the sign at the Federal Reformatory in El Reno, Oklahoma and had one made for…
Nesting in the Executive Team?
Struggling to deliver on your strategy? Lack of urgency in your organization? Watching your competitors do things you’ve thought about but didn’t translate into action? The three questions above address fundamental aspects of business growth. Growth is vital, for if you’re not growing, you’re not succeeding. It’s pleasant to be…
Celebrating an Executive Anniversary
Two out of three executives that step into a new senior position won’t make it to their two year anniversary, according to the Corporate Executive Board, now Gartner. Some of these executives fail spectacularly while the majority quietly struggle. In any case, the effects are devastating to employee engagement and…