Many companies spread their talent around, hoping that will improve the organization’s overall effectiveness. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work very well. Talented people are more productive, especially when it comes to getting complicated things done. Surveys by leading consulting firms show that high performers can be over nine times more …
Manage for the Win
If you’re not managing for the win, it’s hard to get a winning outcome. In competitive sports like baseball or football, it is clear what winning looks like. When it comes to strategy execution, the definition of winning can be more ambiguous. Does it mean growth, profitability, market share, or some other metric of success? Many companies …
7 Minutes of Wisdom From Jay Forrester
Forrester does a wonderful job of explaining the deep simplicity of systems, how this simplicity can produce powerful complexity, and the inherent challenge of leadership. "every system has in it, two concepts and only two. Now that may strike you as surprising. You may not believe it even after these lectures are over, but when you come to …
What Great Leadership Looks Like
In 2 amazing minutes, Steve Jobs reveals eight simple principles for running a great company. The Eight Principles: Organize like a startupEmpower leaders with clear & purposeful responsibilitiesFocus the top team on managing the "whole company"No delegation to committeesEffective teamwork based on deep trustLots of fast/frequent …
Marketing Is About Values
I recently watched a video of Steve Jobs talking about marketing. I pulled out a few excerpts to capture the essence of his talk. “… marketing's about values.This is a very complicated world. It's a very noisy world. And we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. And so we have to be really clear on …
Failure to Transform: It’s Time for a New Paradigm
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" --Upton Sinclair Transformation has become the buzzword for change. In the past, these programs have gone by various names such as re-organization, downsizing, turnaround, right-sizing, restructuring, and re-engineering. Technology and …
Conflict Management Self-Diagnostic
Conflict Management Self-Diagnostic is Part 4 of Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict Part 1 - The Essential Nature of ConflictPart 2 - The Origins of Second-Order ConflictPart 3 - Seven Ways to Fix Your Company's Conflict Problem Download Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict PDF Conflict management is an inevitable challenge for every …
Seven Ways to Fix Your Company’s Conflict Problem
Seven Ways to Fix Your Company's Conflict Problem is Part 3 of Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict Part 1 - The Essential Nature of ConflictPart 2 - The Origins of Second-Order ConflictPart 4 - Conflict Management Self Diagnostic Download Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict PDF If you are interested in unlocking your organization’s true …
The Origins of Second-Order Conflict
The Origins of Second-Order Conflict is Part 2 of Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict Part 1 - The Essential Nature of ConflictPart 3 - Seven Ways to Fix Your Company's Conflict ProblemPart 4 - Conflict Management Self Diagnostic Download Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict PDF The root cause of second-order conflict is poor management …
Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict
This is Part 1 of Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict Part 2 - The Origins of Second-Order ConflictPart 3 - Seven Ways to Fix Your Company's Conflict ProblemPart 4 - Conflict Management Self Diagnostic Download Unlocking the Hidden Value of Conflict PDF To grow, transform, and succeed, companies need to change in ways that make them better …