November 2017
An Assessment Tool That Creates Conversation – Not Defensiveness
Performance assessments – done well – inspire conversation. Done poorly, performance assessments invite defensiveness, excuses, posturing,..
We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top
Only 6.4% of Fortune 500 companies are run by female CEOs, and while there is incremental progress, the rate of change can feel excruciati..
Dark Side at Fidelity: Women Describe Culture of Bias, Revenge
The trouble for Erika Wesson at Fidelity Investments began with an anonymous email.
Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies
Many strategy execution processes fail because the firm does not have something worth executing.
How Coca-Cola, Netflix, and Amazon Learn from Failure
Why, all of a sudden, are so many successful business leaders urging their companies and colleagues to make more mistakes and embrace more..
51 Rules for Leadership Excellence
Achieve the rank of a genuine leader when you live and lead by the rules on this no-fail list.
Organizational Awareness: A Sixth Sense for Reading Your Company
Organizational Awareness means having the ability to read a group’s emotional currents and power relationships, and identify influencers, ..
Your Strategy Should Be a Hypothesis You Constantly Adjust
The widely accepted view that strategy and execution are separable activities sets companies up for failure in a fast-paced world.
The ‘hidden talent’ that determines success
In our era of globalization, your job performance may depend on your “CQ”. So what is it?
Steve Jobs, Tony Hsieh and 4 Other Pre-eminent Leaders Who Succeeded by Introducing a Culture
What did these guys have in common? They valued culture as much as, if not more than, generating quick revenue.