Leaders Help People See Beyond What Is to What Could Be
Successful entrepreneurs are leaders with vision who predict the future by inventing it.
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Consistently held expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies. Leaders see people as they could be – as eagles in training.
Read article »Leaders Handle Performance Problems
Leaders know that poor performance is like a highly contagious disease. The longer it goes unchecked, the more everyone suffers.
Read article »Leaders Focus on Reflection and Renewal
Strong leaders who are effective coaches know the value of reflection and renewal. They periodically pull themselves and their teams back from daily work in operations to work on themselves.
Read article »Leaders Energize and Inspire
We are either part of the energy problem or part of its solution. There is no neutral zone. We are either net takers or net contributors of energy to others. We need to ask those we're trying to lead or influence about our energy leadership. Highly effective leaders energize others. That energy mobilizes people to action.
Read article »Keys to Personal, Team, and Organization Transformation
Lasting and effective change and improvement comes from moving beyond bolt-on programs and quick-fix improvement programs to built-in processes.
Read article »Keep it Simple
Focus on three or four defined strategic imperatives, then execute and measure results.
Read article »Just a Job or Part of Our Deeper Purpose?
There is no particular job, industry, or organization that magically transforms "just a job" into passionate life work. However, to spot an opportunity we need to know what we're looking for. We need to clarify our purpose.
Read article »Innovation Through Accidents and “Controlled Chaos”
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 »Innovation Needs a Culture of Trust and Openness
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 »Innovation Means Looking Beyond What Is to What Could Be
We need to manage the paradox of paying close attention to closing today's customer and partner performance gaps while we explore, search, and create tomorrow's new markets, customers, and partners.
Read article »Innovation Calls for Leadership
Seizing the opportunities of tomorrow calls for leadership. It means taking off the blinders of what is, in order to see what could be.
Read article »Innovation and the Law of Averages
To double our innovation success rate, we need to double our failure rate. Our goal is not failure; it's success, therefore, we must use the Law of Averages to "fail our way to success."
Read article »Innovation and Organizational Learning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part 3)
Discover the Innovation and Organizational Learning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success
Read article »Innovation and Organizational Learning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part 2)
Discover the Innovation and Organizational Learning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success.
Read article »Innovation and Organizational Learning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part 1)
Discover the Innovation and Organizational Learning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success
Read article »Innovation and Learning Through Successful Failures
When asked why he wasn't getting results with his countless tries to successfully develop the light bulb, Thomas Edison replied, "Results? Why, man, I've gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
Read article »Improvement Planning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part Two)
Discover the Improvement Planning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success
Read article »Improvement Planning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part One)
Discover the Improvement Planning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success.
Read article »Improvement Planning Infrastructure and Process
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.
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