An essential part of leadership is to set, communicate, and monitor behavior standards. In my work with high performance organizations, I have found that one of the quickest ways to improve project and strategy execution, is to focus on new […]
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In turbulent times it’s important to stay close to your clients, colleague’s, and bosses. A good way to provide practical support is to help them systematically think through and develop options. Here is a simple and proven framework to […]
Buying things can be scary. The reason is that in any business transaction, there is always one party which carries most—if not all—risk at the end of the transaction. For example, if you buy apples at the grocery store, you exchange […]
A neutrino is a subatomic particle which has no electrical charge and a very small mass. It has very little interaction with matter: For example, it takes approximately one lightyear of lead (about 10 trillion kilometers, or 6 trillion miles) […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to read The Smartest Guys in the Room: a fascinating book about the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Enron in 2001. Enron was characterized by greed and hubris: Enron’s focus was making money, regardless of potential risks or adverse […]
People will increasingly move to a place where other people love their work. Talent retention will therefore shift to recognizing, building, and expanding strengths of individual high performers. What are you doing to shift your focus from compensating weaknesses, to rapidly recognize […]
The purpose of thinking is to stop thinking. The reason is that thinking is a high energy activity: It takes massive amounts of energy to simply think. Whenever we think, we are therefore designed to return to automatic pilot as […]
Here are ten signs that your organization has an incredibly effective high performance meeting culture. At the start of each meeting, the first point of discussion is: “What are we trying to achieve in this meeting?” At the end of the […]
Whenever I help leaders to create a high performance culture in their organization, they often tell me that they feel like expensive executive babysitters: They are frequently called upon by their team to take low-level decisions, solve internal conflicts, or […]
The downfall of Captain Ahab, the protagonist of Moby Dick, became his obsession with catching the white whale. There is a fine line between admirable persistence and block-headed tenacity. If you’re the only one left on the barricades, it’s probably time to leave […]
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