This is the first of a two part series on Defining the Company Purpose and Vision. Purpose is the springboard for an aspirational vision that galvanizes people. But company purpose receives scant attention in leadership and organizational literature. Here’s a quick primer to help you define your company’s purpose.
What is the one thing leaders need to know to ignite and sustain transformation? When offered a choice between the path to evolution and the path to stagnation, people will choose….
If you’ve given someone who works for you verbal feedback two or three times, and still nothing changes, you might try action feedback instead.
It is not often that one gets to talk openly, honestly and with shared vulnerability to the leader behind the curtain. From that secret place much is revealed and there is much I have learned.. I invite you to join me in doing so, together.
Leading sometimes requires that you step back to lead forward. Learn when, why, and how while discovering a law of organizational physics.
In a recent presentation to managers on employee motivation, participants highlighted what matters most when it comes to their own motivation. The number one factor is a meaningful challenge. Challenge means they have the skills needed but must stretch these same skills, and possibly some new ones to succeed They also indicated the recognition by managers and leaders are the most important rewards.
Political leaders on the campaign trail, would do well to take a page from the corporate leaders’ playbook. Walk the Talk. Lead now, as you say you will when, and if, you win.
Dear CEO: What’s your 400 year business plan? You don’t have one? Things would be very different if you did.
As a leader new to your current role, you encounter would-be seducers, lining up to play the game of organizational politics. What to do?
Marissa Mayer is the first pregnant CEO of a major company, that we know of. With this news, we have the opportunity to re-think the boundary between work and life, Drawing the line with dashes, to achieve greater permeability, will serve us better in a variety of ways. It will even light the spark of innovation more readily.
