Effective Leaders Value Their People
Leaders have always been evaluated based on the two extremes of the tasks that must be done compared to the relationship skills involved in motivating the people who will actually do the work. The theory was some leaders are born project managers and others are great in customer service. In the old industrial age model […]
How To Change Organizational Culture
According to John Kotter there are many reasons change initiatives fail especially in large organizations. The number one reason is there is not a clear sense of urgency for change that makes everyone willing to pay the short term price of pain due to change to gain the long term benefit of progress. Many times […]
How To Know You Are In The Right Job
All of us know the price we pay when we find ourselves working with the wrong people in the wrong place. In all the research Jim Collins has done he has come to the conviction that what we do in our work in not as important as who we do it with. This does not […]
6 Roles Of Short Term Wins
One of the major mistakes we make in major change initiatives is that we oversell the long term goal at the expense of dealing with the short term problems. People do want to know where they are going but they want to know even more what does all this mean for me right now? Once […]
5 Steps To Get Honest Feedback
One of the things I experience in my executive coaching over and over again is the tremendous negative cost of leaders not having a willingness to tell people the truth. People really do want to know what is expected and where they stand but insecure leaders can’t seem to have the honest conversations. This Forbes […]