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Becoming a Strategic Leader

What is the most strategic decision you have made in the last 60 days, personally or professionally? How do you continue to develop as a strategic leader? Learn how you can improve your strategic leadership skills, especially strategic decison making.

Tags | decision making, decisive leadership, executive leadership, executive ownershift, leadership decisions, strategic decisions, strategic leadership

Are you carrying hidden agendas in your executive team?

Are you carrying hidden agendas in your executive team? Hidden agendas in your executive team can cripple to your organization’s performance. Don’t waste energy and time carry hidden agendas in your executive team or anywhere in your organization, here's a suggestion how to deal with them.

Tags | elephant in the room, executive ownershift, executive team excellence, hidden agendas, high performance leadership teaam, sacred cows

How do others talk about your mid-year performance appraisals?

What does your team appreciate and value about the way you lead the mid-year performance appraisal process? Those insights may help you create an ownership culture in your team and organization.

Tags | executive ownershift, high performance, mid-year appraisals, performance management

A 600-year-old leadership team off-site location?

Breakthrough learning locations, I look for off-site venues that are conducive to breakthrough learning and results – so if you have a leadership team that is looking for fertile ground to take their next big steps, I can highly recommend the Spread Eagle Hotel & Spa in Midhurst.

Tags | breakthrough learning locations, executive breakthroughs, executive ownershift, leadership off-sites, offsite venues

I Got Hacked on LinkedIn – What Happened and Lessons Learned

Even if you are super careful about how you use social media, hackers can still find a way to breach your security. Here's a short story about what happened to me and how you can steer clear of a hacker's wrath.

Tags | executive ownershift, hacked, hacker, LinkedIn

Nesting in the Executive Team – Part II

Nesting can happen quickly in the executive team. It diminishes initiative and ownership in the organization. If you sense the symptoms (see last week’s post) of nesting in your executive team, here are five “anti-nesting” strategies to get your executive team back on track.

Tags | effective executive teams, executive nest, executive ownershift, high performance executive team, high performance leadership teams, leadership effectiveness, nesting in the executive team

Nesting in the Executive Team – Part I

Are you struggling to deliver on your strategy? Is there a Lack of urgency in your organization? Your executive team could be suffering from "executive nesting". Read more here.

Tags | effective executive, effective executive teams, executive nest, executive ownershift, executive team performance, high performance executive team, highly effective leadership teams

It’s not the tools that make an exceptional carpenter (or leader)

Help your people find the courage to be themselves. This means knowing what you want, saying what you think and being in the moment with the people around you. Do not hide behind tools or busy yourself with diagnostics that take your eyes of the real issues. Resist the seduction…

Tags | Albert Einstein, executive ownershift, management tools, performance management

Size Matters

Stop worrying about having a small team, a small territory, or being part of a small organization. It’s not the size of your team, or your organization that matters, it’s the size of your ideas.

Tags | david and goliath, executive ownershift, innovative thinking, strategic leadership, think big

A bad boss is good business…

Gallup has done much work in this area and their research shows that roughly 70% of the variance in employee engagement is linked to the experiences they have with their boss. A bad boss is good business, unfortunately not for the boss’s company!

Tags | executive ownershift, Gallup, high performance, high performance culture, leadership team effectiveness