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This morning we woke to the news that RIM is in crisis mode. In 2008, it had a stock share price of $148. Last week, shares closed at $17.24. Something had to give, and today it did, with the announcement that it’s co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis were stepping down. RIM started out with [...]
Continue Reading →Most descriptions of High Performing Teams focus on the ideal – where everyone gets along with and supports each other, where conflicts are minimised or even prevented altogether, where teamwork prevails and a smooth flow exists in the patterns of communication between team members and with other teams.
Yet in reality, most teams that are [...]
Continue Reading →Despite innumerable leadership theories, models and the training that goes with them, effective leaders are still in short supply. I say this because numerous studies have shown that when it comes to developing and executing organizational strategy, which is the main task of leadership, the failure rate is huge, somewhere in the region of 70%.
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Continue Reading →One of the Five Key Facets of High Performance Leadership is FOCUS. When I discuss this, I describe a leader’s FOCUS as either dealing with a BIG crisis or pursuing a BIG idea. Bill Gates has now turned his attention to helping raise people out of poverty, [...]
Continue Reading →Arguably the world’s most successful (and colorful) entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson’s leadership style is a key driver of his brand, which is now one of the top 20 brands in the world. Looking at his leadership style through the lens of The FACET Leadership™ Model, [...]
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This article discusses accountability in organizations and how managers can shed the command and control aspects of the old style of accountability in favor of a more humane way of managing, which the author calls ‘ the new accountability’.
“Working for an organization should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody [...]
Continue Reading →Are people listening to your leadership message? If not, try looking at your communications again. Whether you are trying to persuade, inform, educate or entertain, your message has to compete with dozens if not hundreds of other messages that the recipient receives every day.
By and large, we tend to remember those messages that impact [...]
Continue Reading →Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks doesn’t believe that they are a coffee company.No, he believes that Starbucks stands for something bigger than that…in this Forbe’s video, CArmine Gallo disects Schultz’s leadership message. Carmine hits on three points as it relates to Howard Schultz’s leadership qualities.
- Ask yourself what business you are really [...] Continue Reading →
So you want to be a great leader? As important as developing the attitudes, skills and knowledge of leadership are, there are certain things you need to stop doing if you want to achieve the goal of becoming a great leader. In my work with leaders, the toughest part of change for them is to stop [...]
Continue Reading →Most successful leaders never set out to become a leader…they set out to make a difference. In doing so they find themselves taking the lead on something that is near and dear to them. And only then do we call them leaders. They become “accidental leaders”.
While you can train a person to lead, you can’t make them lead. [...]
Continue Reading →Marcus Buckingham is of the opinion that respondents to 360 degree feedback surveys are not in a position to rate their leader on the competencies or behaviors covered in a typical 360. Instead, he offers us an alternative: ask questions as to how the respondent feels about working with the leader. Just don’t ask them to [...]
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Business planning has come of age. When Henry Mintzberg announced the death of strategic planning, corporate executives breathed a collective sigh of relief.
No more need to engage in centralized planning, with it’s tortuous reliance on data (which was never reliable in the first place), future gazing (which was the business version of astrological star [...]
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If your team is not learning, they’re not growing…and as a consequence, your organization won’t grow. Sounds pretty simple and obvious. Yet how many organizations actually stunt their growth by not investing in learning and development? Worse still, how many organizations spend inordinate amounts of money and resources to attract talent, and then starve that [...]
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Teamwork advocates will tell us that working as a team is the solution to all of our performance challenges. I’m not so sure. I think it depends on the situation or challenge.
Back in the 1800′s, when settlers were moving westwards across North America, they hired scouts who would head out in advance and collect [...]
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