Strategic Discipline Blog

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Topics: Core Values, leadership, Effective Leadership, Leadership Decisions, Mission, Vision, Values, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Robert Steven Kaplan

History has long been one of my favorite subjects, and between my business reading, I interject historical books including biographies of great leaders.

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Topics: leadership, Effective Leadership, Mastering Leadership, Great Leadership, Team of Rivals, Leadership Character Traits, Abraham Lincoln Leadership Genius

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Topics: People Decisions, Effective Leadership, Great Teams, The Captain Class, Sam Walker, Winning Teams

Five-plus years ago I was introduced to the Drama Triangle at our Scaling Up Growth Summits in Dallas. Follow this link and you’ll discover insights into why you behave as you do, why your employees behave as they do, and most importantly how to adjust to produce a better outcome by using an Outcome Orientation versus a Problem Orientation.

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Topics: leadership, Effective Leadership, Leadership Core Behavior, Contagious Emotions

I am grateful this week of Thanksgiving for Katie Brenneman, guest writer, who provides insights into why you should invest in your leadership skills to improve your team's level of job satisfaction:

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Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, Effective Leadership, Employee Satisfaction, Mental Health, Leadership Skills

Many leaders find it difficult to admit their mistakes. They feel when they make mistakes, they are more vulnerable, risk losing respect, and the authority they need to lead.

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Topics: change, Effective Leadership, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Leadership Decisions, Mistakes, Change Your Culture

Are people promoted to their highest level of incompetence?

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Topics: Leadership Training, leadership, Effective Leadership, Mastering Leadership, Leadership Circle Profile, Scaling Leadership

The number-one reason for failure of vision and strategy is ineffective leadership, both individual and collective.

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Topics: Leadership Training, Effective Leadership, Mastering Leadership, Leadership Circle Profile, Scaling Leadership

“Terror is the ultimate way to paralyze a people’s will to resist and destroy their ability to plan a strategic response. Such power is gained through sporadic acts of violence that create a constant feeling of threat, incubating a fear that spreads throughout the public sphere. The goal in a terror campaign is not battlefield victory but causing maximum chaos and provoking the other side into desperate overreaction. Melting invisibly into the population, tailoring their actions for the mass media, the strategists of terror create the illusion that they are everywhere and therefore that they are far more powerful than they really are. It is a war of nerves. The victims of terror must not succumb to fear or even anger; to plot the most effective counterstrategy, they must stay balanced. In the face of a terror campaign, one’s rationality is the last line of defense.” ~ 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene

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Topics: strategy, Effective Leadership, Strategy - How, 33 Strategies of War

Verne Harnish hosted another virtual Summit with 3 speakers (click the link to watch the replay) on Wednesday, February 24^th.

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Topics: People, People/Relationship Drivers, leadership, priority, Effective Leadership, Chipotle, Vulnerability, Monty Moran, Love is Free. Gauc is Extra