We can't build a team or organization that's different from us. Successful team or organization leadership begins with successful self-leadership. The first step in improving my team or organization is improving me.
Read article »We need to be less afraid of death and more frightened by an empty life. When we feel the most love, passion, or energy is when we are the most alive. That's when our soul sings.
Read article »Teams and organizations with well-grounded, shared values that are alive and thriving, have much higher than average performance. These leaders, teams and organizations identify and live their core values.
Read article »Designing statements, putting them into action and consistently showing what the organization stands for.
Read article »The 3 Ps — picture or preferred future, principles, and purpose — are critically important. Our answers to three basic questions define the team and/or organizational culture we are trying to create.
Read article »Core values are critical to effectively leading people. Discover the Living Organizational Values approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your pathway to success.
Read article »Effectively using values to care for the context and provide focus to a team or organization can be very difficult leadership acts. Discover the Clarifying Organizational Values approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success.
Read article »Developing a personal, team, and organization purpose that's aimed at serving others adds a richer sense of meaning to any personal, team, or organization change or improvement efforts.
Read article »Today's societies, organizations, and people have gone — and are going — through major changes. Emerging from research are key elements and characteristics of top performing organizations in today's environment.
Read article »Now, more than ever, organizations need the bonding glue of a strong culture to hold everything and everyone together. At the core of that culture is a strong leader pulling the team together.
Read article »Creating the conditions for self-motivation leads to satisfied employees producing satisfied customers.
Read article »Not all organizations perform equally. The significant variable is the quality of leadership.
Read article »The innovation paradox: Random, chaotic, and unpredictable innovations need a stable management system and process to nurture the growth and development of "lucky breaks."
Read article »If we want more experimentation and learning on our teams or organizations, we must establish an atmosphere that builds self-confidence and trust.
Read article »Personal, team, or organization improvement doesn't happen just because we want to get better. Unless we have the infrastructure and processes for constant and ongoing improvement, it's all just wishful thinking.
Read article »Continually improving our capabilities calls for coordination and planning. The goal of planning isn't plans, however, but action.
Read article »Discipline, consistency, and new habit formation moves organizations from Partial Quality Management to true Total Quality Management.
Read article »When I look back at the hundreds of team or organization changes I've been involved in during the last three decades, the most successful – and certainly all major ones – were driven by "monomaniacs with a mission."
Read article »A company's external customer service is only as strong as the company's internal leadership, and the culture of commitment that this leadership creates.
Read article »When change fails, it can almost always be traced to dysfunctional leadership.
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