“It was her fault”, said the Head of Planning for a mid-size manufacturing company I consulted for. The company was not meeting output results and one of the owners took a deep dive to find out why and found there was an unaccounted-for product that was missing from the planner’s reports.
Tag Archives: Leadership
10 Ways To Kill Team Culture
It’s the culture stupid! Culture matters whether you’re a small, medium, or large company. It matters because it helps attract and retain talent, motivates employees, improves customer experience, promotes collaboration and teamwork, and provides a competitive advantage when harnessed effectively.
When You’re In A Hole Focus On Solving Problems
We all go through it—rough patches, bumps on the road, times when nothing works as we’d like it to. Your business is failing, a deal falls through, and a key partnership doesn’t work out, you lose sight of the end goal and overspend on a key initiative. It happens. Sometimes we dig a hole we can’t seem to get out of and keep digging!
40 Questions To Help You Stimulate Disruptive Thinking And Inspire Bold Action
Most brainstorming sessions suck! Why? Because they inspire creative thinking, challenge the status quo, and inspire bold action. The solution isn’t just bringing in outsiders who don’t think and act like you. It’s to ask provocative questions that drive your brainstorming efforts.
The Best Leaders Revel In Being Wrong
“I know the business.” The word, “know”, is the enemy of improvement and innovation. Innovation has many enemies, but experience and groupthink are its biggest. And because people run businesses, every single one of them will fall into the trap.
Great Leaders Are Consistently The Biggest Thinkers In The Room
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.
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.