As a leader, do you lead with courage? Are you challenging the status quo? Are you thinking big? These are important questions to reflect on because as a leader you set the tone. Do you want your team to think and act boldly? You have to think and act boldly.
Category Archives: Leadership
Building a Champion Mindset: The Power of a Confident Self-Image
What do Lebron James, Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, Jack Nicklaus, and Michael Jordan have in common? They are considered to be the best at what they do. How did they do that? Attitude, talent, discipline, and consistency; are the usual suspects. But you know what separates them from the rest? Their mindset, how they think, enables them to operate at peak performance.
11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
“Hang out with weird, and thou shall become more weirder” Tom Peters once said when advising on how you can become more creative. This will always be true because something you can bet on not changing in the future is human nature.
The Most Imporant Leadership Principle: Be The Example
“I want quality! Why aren’t we delivering quality consistently?” I was talking with a client recently about his operation, and he mentioned a few challenges his business has been having with quality issues. His business has been dealing with growth issues for many years, unable to grow because they don’t have the size and competence to deliver at a larger scale.
10 Reasons Why You Should Automate Your Business’s Redundant Workflows And Processes
Artificial intelligence is the talk of the town. Whether or not it’s ready for prime time depends on your level of expectation. In its current state, it’s not going to replace humans anytime soon; but it can certainly take over some redundant tasks and workflows.
8 Practices To Drive Innovation In Your Business
“We’ve been brainstorming ideas, but we haven’t decided on what to do”, “We brainstorm all the time but end up with the same ideas”, and “We brainstorm around ideas that only management wants”. Last week I visited a prospective client in the manufacturing industry, these are some of the things that they told me when I asked them about their innovation efforts.
Use These 20 Questions To Help Stimulate Innovative Thinking
Innovation is as much about attitude and perspective as it is about process. A big one for me is shifting perspective to stimulate innovation. So, how do you inject ‘perspective’ into your thinking? It all starts with a provocative question.