Tonight in St. Paul Minnesota when performing with Carol King, James Taylor allows his back up singer Arnold McCullar to belt out Shower The People and he totally upstaged JT. This was not missed by the audience. And it was not by accident. This is true leadership, confidence and humility on the part of JT. [...]
The Minnesota Twins beat the Red Sox recently, largely due to Red Sox fielding and throwing errors that led to several runs. It was a home game, so Twins fans cheered when the Red Sox failed to make routine plays. Far less cheering happened when the Twins made their routine plays. Often, in sports and [...]
ITIL, Six Sigma, Lean, TQM, Agile Development, Scrum, XP, APM, PMBOK, strategy maps, and portfolio management the list goes on and on. How does anyone make sense of all the management mantras? The reality is that most do not. The average organization will attempt to implement three of these, or other management techniques, every two years. Each initiative will cost approximately U.S. $750,000 and will be canceled within 12 months. Yet, the management problems these ideas were undertaken to solve will continue.
The book Influencer: The Power to Change Anything use these and other cases to show you how you can use these same skills, what he authors call “vital behaviors” to have influence on yourself, family, community, work. They have studied some of the world greatest influencers and have broken down what they are doing to build sustain change in organizations and communities. Influencer looks at how do people who are capable of influencing profound persistent highly resistant problems. And help you as the reader see a different way to change others minds.
Using Toro Company as an example you will see how adapting Haddon Matrix to your organization could help you reduce your cost of patterned negative events that are institutionalized.
Simon Sinek is a leadership consultant who recently wrote the book Start With Why, and delivered a presentation at TED on this concept he has research. The premise is based on the idea he calls the Golden Circle.
This is part three of our seven part series on Trust. Many leaders think of trust is something for them to gain rather than give. This series supports the priority of giving trust to support your goal to become an exceptional leader.
Capacity is one of the core tenants of having trust for others. Imagine that you don’t believe one of your co-workers has the capacity to carry out a specific, objective, strategy, or action because they are beyond their capacity to get another initiative done. How likely are you to give them another opportunity to carry forward? You will likely find a work around; do it yourself, find someone down the chain of command to do it. Defer the project. It makes it very difficult to have trust for someone when they show-up this way.
What benefits does an organization gain by having values alignment? And what outcomes can be expected if accomplished?
Values, and alignment of those values across the organization, drive organizational performance and promote growth.
Organizational values reveal themselves in two ways: 1) from/in organizational strategy development (the planning process to set goals and vision– the ideal future state you are working towards) and, 2) through organizational norms that reveal themselves based on behavior (good or bad) in lieu of, or in addition to established and known values, as set in #1.
Today I will be interviewing Scott Belsky, Scott and I had the opportunity to meet about four years ago when I was introduce to the Action Method. I liked it so much now all my clients use it and CO2 Partners sell it on our website. When I learned that Scott had a new book [...]
There are seven communication mistakes that lead to mis-understandings, and cause conflicts between co-workers, and bosses and their subordinates, which lead to low morale and toxic work environments.
They are called the “The 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership Communication.” This article will address the least understood and most common of these leadership communication sins, a “lack of specificity.”
Learn how to gain influence in Washington and in your own state.
“If a man is alone in the woods, is he still wrong all the time?” Not if he is in his Man Cave. Last week I was invited by reporter Jim Hammerand of Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal to be part of a panel of business experts to help local serial entrepreneur and college student Nick [...]
If you are an online business, then one negative thing you can encounter is the ease at which other people can smear your reputation through the use of the Internet. The Internet is a wonderful yet volatile device, and if you start receiving bad reviews online, it can often seem that there is no coming back.
C-level executives continue to tolerate things and procrastinate on taking action in areas that are dramatically affecting their company’s results. Among the most important issues business leaders are allowing to sabotage organizational results involve employee performance. Find out what they are and what you can do about changing them.
In the mountains in Steamboat Colorado is a world class restaurant called Cafe Diva. Not only can one learn about delivering world-class service with divine dishes. You can learn how effective using your name repeatedly can be. If you go to Cafe Diva you may be lucky enough to be waited on by Daryl. Or [...]
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