William was six months into his new role as a V.P of New Products. “ He is still struggling with how to let go of his former responsibilities and delegate more,” said Lucinda, the division’s president. His team members even validated this, who felt less empowered than before he assumed his new position. He was …
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The ultimate test for where and who you work with When I find myself coaching a leader who is struggling with their boss around integrity and character issues, I always tell them a question I have always asked myself: “Would I want my daughter to work for this person?” When thinking about work, you must …
About two weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday, my five-year-old son Jimmy carried a turkey out to my car. We were delivering it to my new boss, Frank. Our company gave out a frozen turkey as a perk to employees. Frank asked me to pick up his turkey as he was traveling out of town …
The number of people who can clearly articulate the primary challenge they are facing in 2 sentences or less One recent morning, Beth Osborn stood in her office feeling both excited and anxious to start her newly appointed position as Head of Sales. As she looked out the office window into the tree-filled landscape, Beth …
I recently interviewed a team of senior executives for an upcoming business planning session. When I asked the question of what was going well the executive whom we will call Phil was to the point and able to articulate two to three points without hesitation. When a follow-up question came, “What is missing or could this executive …
As businesses begin to reopen, organizations are putting together task forces to consider measures to ensure the health and safety of their returning workforces-phased-in returns to the workplace and social distancing, these are essential items to discuss. What must be an essential part of the conversation is the work from home option? I am not …
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A Leadership Problem: More than 75% of people make decisions before they thoroughly understand the issue that needs to be addressed! George, the executive in charge of R&D for a leading consumer products company, was recently presenting an update to the senior leadership team on the progress in the development of a unique new product. …
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I was asked by my friend Asad Husain former CHRO, what changed about “Leadership” over the last year — my response LOVE — There is one word I would use to describe what has changed and defines good leadership –it is not a term that is used in business much — The world is LOVE and I …
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With everything going on, we need this now more than ever! John Kotter, in his classic work Leading Change, emphasizes the importance of celebrating short- term wins to any organizational transformation effort. As we are all amid unprecedented change, this is also true on a personal level. I believe this is more important than ever. WHY? …
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