Are You a Truly Accountable Leader?
Everybody nowadays is looking for more accountability from leaders. This has become so apparent to me as I’ve travelled around the world talking to leaders.
Individual Accountability
Are You Truly Committed To Do What Is Necessary When Transforming Your Company?
It was time for Jonathan, the former COO of a large retailer, to reflect on what went wrong. Jonathan had been brought in to lead a broad transformation initiative. Change was the order of the day, largely because of an array of disruptive challenges in their sector. Bricks and mortar stores were falling like leaves
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Are You Protecting a Poor Performer?
If there is anything that I’ve learned in my own career, it is that organizations cannot succeed without adhering to one fundamental principle – we can only achieve high performance when employees and leaders commit to being their best, in everything that they do.
Are You an Intergenerational Leader?
It’s safe to say that hardly anyone saw this coming. A few weeks ago, data guru Josh Bersin posted on LinkedIn some interesting labour market statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The data showed that the fastest growing employee cohort in the United States is those over seventy years of age.
What Are You Doing To Build Deep Connections At Work?
It may come as some surprise to you, but loneliness is fast becoming one of the most important health issues facing our society. Recently, Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, who served as Surgeon General of the United States from 2014 to 2017, published a great article in the Harvard Business Review that examines loneliness and
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Do You Set A Powerful Example For Those You Lead?
Joe Biden has a message for all leaders. Our ability to lead is not based just on power, “but on the power of our example.” The former U.S. vice president used this observation in a pointed critique in the New York Times of current President Donald Trump’s administration. It’s quite clear when you read the
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Are You Stepping Up to the Great Expectations of Leadership?
When I first started working in the leadership industry, the great expectations of leadership only fell to the senior executives of a company. These leaders were under pressure to think strategically, steer organizational change, and execute all aspects of the business plan. Expectations for middle and front-line managers were pretty minimal. They simply needed to
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Should You Stay Or Should You Go?
As many of you know, I am a big fan of regular self-assessment. In my last blog post, I asked readers to perform a mid-year gut check review of their leadership accomplishments. I find that the six-month marker in the calendar year is a great time to assess your performance and set goals for the
Have You Succumbed To Hubris?
I’ve always loved reading the ancient writings of Greek mythology. The stories have always fascinated me because they spoke so eloquently about the human condition of the time. But what I find particularly interesting is how many of those ancient texts are still relevant to our current world. One prominent and recurring theme in those
Can You Avoid A Downward Spiral?
The term ‘downward spiral’ seems to be all the rage. It’s understandable given what’s going on in the world these days. I did a quick search of the Web this past week and found numerous stories where downward spiral – defined in contemporary terms as an unstoppable downward trajectory – was used to describe the