One More Thing to Thank Volodymyr Zelensky For Great leaders are exceptional performers; that is, they perform exceptionally. Is their performance comparable to the stagecraft of great actors who convincingly transform themselves into the characters their roles summon them to be? Like stage actors, highly effective leaders deftly and almost magically suspend an element of [...]
At this stage of our COVID-19-Socio-Economic Recovery, the most prevalent, and perhaps precipitous concern facing the CEOs we work with is the finding, hiring, and retaining of competent employees. The challenges range from the need for unskilled labor to competing for top talent in management and leadership roles. We have heard of issues across the [...]
I've heard it said that to find opportunity, you have to either be lucky or smart – and it’s best to be both. The problem with this thinking is that coming across an opportunity doesn't mean you will gain any benefit from it. What you do after you uncover an opportunity is what matters most. [...]
Success in business - and in almost every aspect of life - is a function of two things we can control - and one that we cannot - at least not directly, and that is luck. Luck is the reminder that we are all subject to the random and enormous force of nature. Like the [...]
One distinguishing characteristic of highly accomplished leaders is being a virtuoso questioner. If you make a habit of this, you will become a better leader. Artful leadership questions express genuine curiosity. Unlike rhetorical questions that are demonstrations of what you know, artful leadership questions demonstrate vulnerability and intellectual humility. When your questions are born and [...]
Leadership, at times, can be brutal. You can find yourself under constant pressure to perform. The demands of your role mean that you must solve problems, prevent problems, direct the organization’s strategic course, correct the course, evaluate threats and opportunities, provision the resources your organization needs, set standards, ensure that your people are working in [...]
Over the past 15 years working with CEOs and business leaders, more than anything else, one thing has become clear: leadership plays an inextricable role in achieving significant success and sustaining it. To be sure, sustainable companies also depend on competent management and solid systems and processes to ensure things run properly. But competent leadership [...]
Over the past 15 years working with CEOs and business leaders, more than anything else, one thing has become clear: leadership plays an inextricable role in achieving significant success and sustaining it. To be sure, sustainable companies also depend on competent management and solid systems and processes to ensure things run properly. But competent leadership [...]
Through my work, I’ve come to recognize mediocrity as perhaps the most insidious threat to human performance – and why it may ultimately threaten the entirety of the whole of the human race. When you examine the best and worst of what humanity has to offer, rarely, if ever, do you find people aspiring to [...]
When you look at companies that either thrive, manage to survive, or fail, you can cite a multitude of factors as the reasons to explain why. However, broadly success or failure comes down to four things: capital, management, leadership, and luck. There is an intrinsic relationship between business, capital, and risk. Capitalism is a free-market [...]
