“For things to change, somebody somewhere has to start acting differently.” – From the book Switch: How to change things when change is hard. If you want your team to do things differently just send them an email right? Just merely saying ‘let’s be different’, ‘let’s innovate’ in an email is not going to [...]
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." – Viktor Frankl A big part of strategy making is differentiating your business from others, being able to help people notice what’s different [...]
Here’s another take on a couple of posts I wrote a few weeks ago on picking an enemy and then declaring war on them. Part of crafting a business strategy is defining a vision, mission and values. One of the problems I see with this is it’s done more like an uninspired exercise of [...]
We can draw many lessons from the world of sports onto business, I was watching a feature video on ESPN on Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash on a Point Guard’s Vision and couldn’t help but see the correlation between vision in sports and in business. In business there’s talk of the [...]
When I was younger and went with my parents to all family get togethers all the grown ups would sit at a table and talk/rant about politics (you get the picture!). My mom would ask me why I didn’t go and sit with my dad so that I could learn something, to which my response [...]
As leaders we have to be able to paint a picture in people’s minds, shape the future and to bring it to the present. A dream is also a vision I was at a recent New Leadership workshop with a client down in Mexico and one of the exercises is what we call [...]
Bold compelling visions bring everyone together on a real purpose I was going through the SmartBrief on leadership newsletter this morning and found a interesting read on a great leadership lesson from Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford. Mr. Mulally was interviewed by the NYTimes and was asked what leadership lessons he had learned over his [...]
