“Execution is the great unaddressed issue in the business world today. Its absence is the single biggest obstacle to success and the cause of most of the disappointments that are mistakenly attributed to other causes.” ― Ram Charan, author of What the CEO Wants You to Know and Boards that … [Read more...] about Creating an Execution Culture – A Leader’s Most Important Job
The Succession Solution: Apprenticeship Model
CEO turnover has increased sharply in recent years. CEOs are failing sooner and falling harder, leaving companies in turmoil. At all levels, companies are short on quantity and quality of potential leaders. There’s something wrong with leadership development practices. Organizations are facing … [Read more...] about The Succession Solution: Apprenticeship Model
Are You Ready for the Future?
Is your organization looking forward, or is it focused on the problems of the present and immediate short-term competition? Will your organization create new rules of competition in the future? Is it imagining new ways of doing business, building new capabilities, and setting new standards of … [Read more...] about Are You Ready for the Future?
Leadership Coaching for Results
“As long as there are human beings doing the work, businesses can profit by creating more fruitful relationships with them.” Stratford Sherman and Alyssa Freas, Harvard Business Review, Dec. 2004 Many attempts have been made over the past decade to quantify return on investment of coaching … [Read more...] about Leadership Coaching for Results
Understanding Executive Failure
CEOs are now lasting just 7.6 years in office on a global average, down from 9.5 years in 1995, according to consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005). Recent corporate scandals and bankruptcies reveal that some CEOs fail … [Read more...] about Understanding Executive Failure
Where Have All the Good Managers Gone?
“No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.” – Henry Mintzberg Nobody aspires to being a good manager these days. So much attention and resources … [Read more...] about Where Have All the Good Managers Gone?
The Case for Clarity: A Key Leadership Quality
“Effective leaders don’t have to be passionate. They don’t have to be charming. They don’t have to be brilliant… They don’t have to be great speakers. What they must be is clear. Above all else, they must never forget the truth that of all the human universals – our need for security, for … [Read more...] about The Case for Clarity: A Key Leadership Quality
A Winning Team in the First 90 Days
The most important decisions you make in your first 90 days will probably be about the people on your team. If you succeed in creating a high-performance team, you can exert tremendous leverage in value creation. If not, you will face severe difficulties, for no leader can hope to achieve much … [Read more...] about A Winning Team in the First 90 Days
Leadership Coaching for Behavioral Change
How do you get leaders to change? How do you optimize their talents and potential? What are best practices of executive coaching programs that produce lasting results in effective leadership behaviors that drive business results? Executive coaching is a tremendous opportunity for leveraging … [Read more...] about Leadership Coaching for Behavioral Change
Leadership by Persuasion
“Effective persuasion becomes a negotiating and learning process through which a persuader leads colleagues to a problem’s shared solution.” —Jay A. Conger,PhDProfessor of organizational behavior, London Business School Author, Winning ’Em Over: A New Model for Management in the Age of … [Read more...] about Leadership by Persuasion