Retaining Today’s Young Managers
It’s tax season, and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service expects that more than 153 million federal individual tax returns will be filed thi..
Computer security is broken from top to bottom
Annoyed by the parlous state of computer security, he had, he claimed, decided to perform a public service by demonstrating just how easy ..
Great Leaders Know What They Do Best – and Let Go of the Rest
“I’m a strategist,” Hank tells his management team. “Like most good generals, I give you the specifics of what you need to do, and why.” H..
Radical Candor
Radical Candor is a culture of guidance based on caring personally and challenging directly everyone you work with. The goal is to achieve..
10 Strategies that Re-energize Demoralized Teams
Layoffs, complaints, stress, cutbacks, unrealistic expectations, shortfalls, and more, demoralize teams.
The Stage Where Most Innovation Projects Fail
When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. Three years later, many of these ambitious ventures will..
Your Brain Doesn’t Want to Change: 5 Ways to Make It
Take a moment and cross your arms. Now, cross them in the opposite direction. Which way was more awkward? If you thought crossing them the..
Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse
Looking at the executive teams we work with as consultants and those we teach in the classroom, increased diversity of gender, ethnicity, ..
Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially
The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my adv..
Social Science Research Explores Psychological Effects Of Rituals
Research suggests when volunteers are taught and required to practice rituals, they demonstrate greater trust toward others who practice t..