If you build high performance teams, you should expect your people are constantly getting job offers. In fact if they aren’t, you probably don’t have a high performance team. Relax, there are 3 possible outcomes from your people considering other j...
Yesterday during a conversation, a leader said "Collaboration is necessary, in fact required, but Consensus is not". This is a key point for ‘Beta’ leaders, (ones who favor a style of connecting, collaborating, and influencing; often in a matrix ra...
You don’t need to hate something in order to want to change it. You don’t need to be angry to affect change. This week, I heard this from three different podcasts, and in two different conversations. I figure if the universe is repeating something, on...
Want to be successful driving your ideas? Getting buy in from your sponsors? Do three things:Have clear and focused objectives. Don’t boil the ocean, keep it simple, and achievable. Demonstrate a definitive and obvious payback (both, for the user of ...
My partnership with Human Resources in hiring teams was a model of ‘you catch em, and I’ll clean em’. Then I learned about aquariums. I have a friend with an amazing salt water aquarium. Working on it for years, his ecosystem includes crabs, exoti...
Company executives shout "Give it more Gas" when they should be taking their foot off the brakes. Companies concerned about growing business, increasing market share, becoming competitive and more innovative, often think that they have to ‘give more g...
"Always remember this." That moment of just listening to the silence. When you have that ability to listen to the silence, you also have the ability to take things in a different way and see the world as fresh. Tim O'Reilly said this in an interview ...
I learned a word this weekend "Firgun", which doesn’t have a direct English equivalent but is described as "the genuine unselfish delight or pride in the accomplishment of the other". In some other descriptions they also add "without an agenda". Hm...
“I can’t wait for the deal to close, this team is just the talent we need." I sighed and looked down into my drink. Companies do acquisitions for one (or more) of three reasons - Capture a book of business - Add a new capability - Acquire talent Of ...
I was 26 at a dinner party. The host asked of the table, “What is your ‘cause’? How are you supporting your cause?" I can’t remember how I stumbled through my answer, but the question (compounded with another experience years before) haunted me. At ...