“There are hidden agendas in my team. Everyone seems friendly on the outside but there are unspoken issues under the surface,” a CEO recently shared with me. “Can you help us deal with our hidden agendas so we can put our energy and ideas back into our real business?” he asked. We’ve…

There are three types of executive leadership teams. There’s the type that doesn’t participate in growing themselves or the team they are a part of. Their reasoning is they don’t have the time, the need, or the interest because they are too busy running their business. The second kind of executive…

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…

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.…

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.…