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Want the magic solution for executing strategy?
Like someone committed to losing weight, once management teams or visionary founders/CEOs identify where they want to go (vision) and roughly what they need to do to get there (strategy), the question is, how do they do it?
Why it's important to ask the right questions
As a business leader, sometimes you need to be more thoughtful in your approach. It is very easy for an individual or a team to respond to a question that leads down the wrong road!
How to be a great leader? Don't make decisions for others
Leaders rarely make decisions for others. Managers make decisions for others (and dehumanize them in the process).
Why emotional intelligence makes a better CEO
It’s not good enough to be smart. That may get you into a leadership role, but it is emotional intelligence (often abbreviated “EQ” or “EI”) that will allow you to succeed.
How to write a great mission statement
Is your mission statement about you or your customer? Are you trying to sound smart, sophisticated and complex?
How to create a high-performance organizational culture
High-performing business organizations and world-class sports teams share some distinguishing characteristics that make them measurably different than their peers.
Why the best leaders value heart and strength
The best leaders in the world care deeply for the people they lead. They trade open door policies for open ear practices.
Top 5 ways to avoid becoming a Hollywood boss
If there is one thing movies about the workplace tell us, it is that Hollywood believes bosses come in all shapes and sizes, and they are all pretty terrible people.
How to build a better company without managers
Managers were invented just over a century ago. Leaders have been around for thousands of years. We conflate the two, when in fact they are radically different.
Why it's time to get rid of your managers
Companies without managers are the present and future of work. In the emerging work world of the Participation Age, the most successful ones will do away with managers completely.
How to build the ultimate tech startup team
Welcome to today’s economic environment where there is virtually no unemployment in technology jobs and there are far more openings than qualified individuals
How to embrace conflict to create change
If there is too much conflict in your organization, you will not have productive conversations. People will worry more about winning the argument than moving the business ahead.
