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Who Decides from Santa’s Chair?

An executive team discovered that they were spending too much time in Santa’s chair, instead of letting the right key players in the business take the chair and make the call. How about in your organization? Are decisions being made at the right level in the company or are too…

Tags | decision making, effective communication, effective decisions, effective leadership teams, executive ownershift, strategic decisions, strategic leadership

How about a good book to light your fire?

Looking for a meaningful book to light your fire? Here are some suggestions from my side. All four are a great read and led to meaningful reflection for me. Perhaps this will inspire your holiday giving or be a new resource for you to explore over the holidays.

Tags | executive ownershift, good leadership reads, leadership books, personal development, professional development

Overstuffing Your Stategy?

More is not always better. Adding new initiatives to your strategic agenda before having the difficult conversations about what to take out, leads to an overstuffed strategy that does not perform.

Tags | effective execution, effective executive, executive ownershift, high performance culture, priority management, strategic leadership, strategy, the effective executive

Are Your S.M.A.R.T. Goals Really Smart?

If you have ever experienced KPI overkill or S.M.A.R.T. goal setting processes that simply re-wrote the status quo, you'll want to read this post. Learn to be smart about your smart goal setting process.

Tags | effective leadership, executive ownershift, kpi, make smart goals smart, personal effectiveness, smart goals, smart leaders

What is the Purpose of Your Business?

The late great management guru Peter Drucker reminded us that the purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. No one embodied this belief more consistently than Kalona, Iowa storekeeper E.J. Hesselschwerdt, How do you bring purpose and meaning to your enterprise?

Tags | creating purpose, Drucker, E.J. Hesselschwerdt, Iowa, Kalona, Peter Drucker, purpose, purpose through customers, purposeful leadership

Embrace Your Pessimism

Pop culture bombards us with “the glass is half full” messages and scolds those that refer to anything that resembles “a half empty glass”. Yet we owe our existence, in part, to the survival strategies that kick in when we view things pessimistically. How do you encourage both pessimistic and…

Tags | authentic communication, effective leadership, executive excellence, executive ownershft, lableling others, Optimism, Pessimism, vulnerability

Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win

Many people are trying to manage too much, afraid to let go or simply say no. Instead of managing a few things well, they struggle and stress with many things, none which is done exceptionally well. This fear of letting go can infect people, teams, and entire organizations. Here's how…

Tags | executive ownershift, high performance culture, leadership team excellence, personal effectiveness, priority management, purpose driven leadership, start with what matters, what matters most

Engulfed in Escalations?

Are you engulfed by escalations because others ask you how do things or to take on uncomfortable tasks instead of developing their own ideas and actions? Here are three ways to ensure that you aren't on the receiving end of every escalation that comes your way.

Tags | effective executive, effective leadership, engulfed by escalation, escalation, executive ownershift, managing escalation, personal effectiveness

Hiding Your Development?

None of us are perfect. When we pretend to be perfect, hide our imperfections, and discourage people from giving us feedback and ideas to improve, we lose followers and our ability to influence others.

Tags | creating a feedback culture, executive leadership, high performance leadership, high performance team cultures, vulnerability

Magnetize Your Strategy

Strategy often stumbles because it is a collection of complicated facts and initiatives that are confusing and difficult to follow. Craft a strategy that tells a story about helping customers and creating value for others and you have got foundation for an emotionally compelling strategy. Logic and facts encourage us…

Tags | becoming strategic, effective executive, executive ownershift, executive story telling, leading strategy, magnetize your strategy, storytelling, strategic decisions, strategic leader, strategy, strategy with a story