Imagine your organization has a unique opportunity. If you move fast, you can enter a new market before your competitors even knows it exists. You’re in a meeting exploring this challenge when a question is raised: “Should we focus more on centralizing or decentralizing to gain a foothold in this new market?” The “Either / …
“Write for five minutes about yourself.” That was all. They were the only instructions we were given. Then we sat together in small groups and read to each other what we had written. I sat with the faculty members who were part of this Catholic healthcare system. They called the five minutes of writing and …
I was on my way this past Sunday morning to pick up my weekly batch of donuts. Later in the day I made sure I stopped at the store on my way home from an In ‘n Out burger to get my potato chips and pint of ice cream. Call it my Sunday ritual. It’s …
Imagine you were your competition. Now – as your competition – create a plan to put yourselves out of business. This may not seem like the question you would want to be asking yourself. One goal of every organization is at the least to stay in business, if not even thrive. Because we never do …
I work with senior leaders in companies around the world. They lead organizations from very diverse industries. Some work in the private sector, others in the public. I have consulted with brand new CEO’s and those who have been in their position for a decade or more. They all have four things in common. They are almost …
Leadership is an essential element of any successful change effort. I’ve written elsewhere about the powerful approach to develop leadership in organizations through coaching. So that led me to wonder what can we learn from coaching about how to develop better leaders? I recently read an article on John Wooden in The Los Angeles Times. Within the same few …
Large, complex, system-wide change is risky business. Real Time Strategic Change and the principles that guide this work ups the ante even further because it will make your future happen faster. When speed increases, your margin for error decreases. This article explains seven “must have’s” to ensure you succeed in all your RTSC work. Without …
If you don’t recognize the impact and consequences of your lack of commitment to this mission critical project, you’re going to lose your people’s belief in your reliability as a competent leader. There are five words in the previous sentence that should have grabbed your attention so strongly that you couldn’t stop reading. Can you …
A few years ago I had the privilege and pleasure of co-authoring You Don’t have to Do It Alone: How to Involve Others to Get Things Done with Dick and Emily Axelrod and Julie Beedon. At the beginning of the book we make the case for why NOT to involve others. It takes more time. It costs more money. In almost …