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How You Can Increase Your Helpers' Sense of Effectiveness
Helpers need to feel effective in order to want to support you, to benefit from supporting you, and to sustain that support over time is perhaps the most over- looked factor when it comes to soliciting help. Here are...
Alex Vincent
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Team Performance: How to Turn Good Into Great
A senior vice president of a big financial services company asked for a meeting to talk about a concern he had with one of his teams. Typically, this is how things begin: an executive asks me to help fix an average or...
Drew Dudley
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This Is Day One
I’ve had a lot of Day Ones in my life. I’ve had Day One of a life without alcohol. I am powerless over alcohol, and for more than two decades it often turned me into far less than the man I want to be. I’ve had Day One...
Make Visible That Which Is Hidden
What does leadership look like in 2018? Are leaders still believed? Are leaders still trusted? The obvious answer is, “of course!†Just look at the health of the market, the economy and how one business, in particular,...
Alan Mulally and Accountability
What Alan Mulally did as the CEO of the Ford Motor Company from 2008 to 2014 was, perhaps, the single greatest feat in business in the past 50 years. Really. Leaving Boeing after a 30-year career there, he walked into a...
How To Cultivate a Successful Culture
Is the culture of your organization holding it back? Are you trying to create culture that’s more innovative, agile, or digitally savvy but can’t seem to get people to adopt a new mindset, much less a new skill set? Or...
Can You be an Independent Thinker and a Team Player?
Most of the truly great teams we’ve studied have at least one member who could be described as an independent thinker. These types of people don’t need much encouragement to share their views. Richard Hackman was a...
Defying Normal To Achieve Greatness
Our normal is a world where no matter their circumstances, girls and women face a wall of resistance in their struggle to define their futures, exercise their power, and lead boldly. But I also believe that we have the...
Sally Helgesen
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Where You Are
Where are you right now in your work and your career? Are you in a place that feels satisfying and gives scope to your talents? Are you valued not just for your contributions but also for your potential? And do you feel...
A $2.4 Billion Lesson All Innovators Should Heed
Being different is not the same as being differentiated… After years of development and $2.4 billion in investment, the Revel Casino opened its doors to the Atlantic City Boardwalk on April 2, 2012. This beautiful hotel...
When It Comes to Leadership Alan Mulally Will Always Be the Boss
From his glory days at Boeing, to Thunder Roads at Ford, Alan Mulally is still The Boss. Simply put, Alan Roger Mulally is the Bruce Springsteen of CEOs - the consummate frontman. For 37 successful years, he was the...
The Mind of the Leader: Leadership Training has it Backwards
During the summer of 2015, Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s CEO, announced that the global professional services company would reimagine its performance management system. The company found that after decades of serving its...
David Heather
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Strategic Performance Management to Transform Your Organization
Who manages their own finances on an annual basis, looks at their bank accounts once a year, checks their RRSP and other investments and then leaves them for 12 months, hoping that everything remains okay? The answer,...
Surfing the Wave and Scaling the Curve: A Primer for Personal Disruption
Theoretically, I’m a surfer. I am always on the lookout for—even pursuing—the next big wave. No ocean, no water, but still, I’m watching the waves everywhere. In 2007 I was working at the Disruptive Innovation Fund I...
How Long Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb Industry Worth $2 Billion in Revenue?
In 2012 the bosses of Philips Hue (ADR) engineers George Yianni and Filip Jan Depauwe were asked a baffling question: why more than one hundred thirty years after Edison’s invention had light bulbs hardly changed at all...