The One Thing That Can Make the Biggest Difference in 2014
Stop for a moment and think about when you’ve had your most successful moments. When you really get to the heart of what made it possible, what drove you to reaching the goal? You likely focused. You set your sights on one thing that really mattered, then set out to make it so. Want to […]
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Friends and Family Plans are for Cell Phones; not Staffing
In the early stages of building a business, executives are challenged to staff the organization quickly and often on a limited budget. There is a need to build a team you can trust and get them up to speed fast. All of a sudden, people are coming out of the woodwork, offering to help. And […]
The Do Loop – Who’ll Make the First Move – ELT or SLT?
This time of year* presents a great opportunity to get the ELT and the SLT out of the do loop. Do Loop? Yes, that age-old issue between the Executive Leadership Team and next level of leadership often called the SLT (Senior Leadership Team). The ELT, finding the SLT as too tactical, lacking in foresight and […]
Psssst…Who’s Going to Tell the Emperor He’s Not Wearing Any Clothes?
When you hear someone refer to “the good old days,” what sort of nostalgia does the saying evoke for you? Fewer responsibilities? More free time? Less stress? More laughter? Less traffic? More…? For many CEOs the days of old bring about memories of fast-tracks, executive training programs, mentors, leadership development and hearing their name and […]
Zombies Are For Pub-Crawls and Jackson Videos…Not The C-Suite
Between pub-crawls, fundraising runs, a solid month of horror movies, and the government shutdown, I am zombied out. It’s not just this time of year, though. Zombies attack year-round and have a special knack for lurking in unaware organizations. That’s when they scare me the most. In general, I find zombies to be vacant, unapproachable, […]
Why You Don’t Need a Coach
I have never wanted to be one of those executive coaches, so caught up in her own rhetoric and having drank from the Kool-Aid of a million other experts, that she passionately evangelizes on why everyone needs what she has to offer. To everyone she meets. In every setting. All the time. Nope, that’s definitely […]