We Don’t Have Conflict on This Team!?!
Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team framework provides a logical approach for both describing and assessing team effectiveness (and ineffectiveness). Briefly, the model states that if team members don’t trust each other, they won’t engage in constructive conflict, and won’t be committed to and hold each other accountable for results. Almost all of the […]
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Where Does Organizational Transformation Begin?
Imagine you are CEO of Willy’s Widgets. You realize the last time you developed a new widget was 2006, your sales are in a terminal slump, and expenses are climbing. To top it off, your executive team is behaving like a bunch of toddlers throwing tantrums, fighting, and refusing to work together. Sounds like it’s time […]
Counteracting the “Side Effects” of Being a CEO
It’s lonely at the top, and it’s also really tough! The role of CEO is a complex one, and it’s changed a lot in the past decade. In a climate of rapid change with very little stability, today’s CEOs are under enormous pressure. New markets and technologies are emerging, and some long-time business models are […]
Can a Sheep Dog Teach a CEO New Tricks?
One of my hobbies is stock handling, ie., training my dog to herd sheep, ducks, and cattle. And, I have come to believe that everything I need to know about leadership, I have learned working with my dog and livestock. Well, not really but there are some remarkable similarities….Here’s one insight: In a typical herding […]
An Off-The-Grid Book List for Leaders
Last week I was at a breakfast talk on innovation. One of the things discussed was how inspiration and innovation can come from seemingly unrelated sources or occurrences, freeing the brain to make different connections. This got me thinking about the obviousness of reading the top business books on The New York Times Business Best […]
Getting Your Head Around Organizational Transformation
The Bailey Group has been working to refine our business model and value proposition to be more explicit about the connection between leadership and team effectiveness and organizational transformation. In the process of doing so, I realized that I needed to get my head around what we really mean by “organizational transformation” in order to […]