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Recently I had the opportunity to hear a group of team members extoll the leadership characteristics of one my clients through their Core Values review (discussed in this blog) Several of the team recognized his integrity, straightforwardness and absolute commitment to excellence. The messages were sincere, heartfelt and real. It was apparent they have great respect, reverence, and dedication to their leader.
Topics: Business Growth, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, leadership, Level 5 Leadership, Leadership Team, Strength Based Leadership
Many business and leadership skills are counter intuitive. Take the idea of less is more. Most of us believe if we tackle more we get more done, when precisely the opposite is true.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, leadership, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Strength Based Leadership
In our last blog Grow Author Jim Stengel “Great Leadership Follow Common Practices” we discussed the five leadership practices great leaders follow and learned: Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, leadership, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, The Advantage, competitive advantage
In Creating the Discipline of The Advantage Patrick Lencioni indicated the single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. He provides Four Disciplines that companies need to achieve organizational health.
Topics: Discipline, Business Growth, leadership, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, One Page Strategic Plan, The Advantage, Brand Ideal
Remember the story of Rip Van Winkle? You probably remember he slept for 20 years, but little else.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, change, leadership, meeting rhythms, priorities, metrics
As today’s Fortune Growth Summit came to a close one of the coaches next to me, Howard Shore, whispered that this might be the best Growth Summit yet. I’d have to agree. Verne Harnish always wraps up the show with a short conclusion, several sponsor messages and today a comedian who is also a Jewish Rabbi. Rabbi Stephen Baars offered excellent comedic relief as well as an exceptional message on thinking. More of that in another blog. Todd Klein, author of Built to Change and Sally Hosghead, consultant and author of Fascinate: Seven Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation had great messages and ideas all share in the coming weeks.
Topics: leadership, Growth Summit, performance, emotional intelligence
Aubrey Daniels in Bringing Out the Best in People insists leaderships’ role in the employee feedback loop is, “… is not to find fault or place blame, but to analyze why people are behaving as they are, and modify the consequences to promote the behavior they need.”
Topics: Strategic Discipline, leadership, positive reinforcement, Balance
President Obama’s address on Tuesday reminded me of a blog I wrote on Is Life Fair. This blog is not intended to support a political agenda, yet when I watched Obama’s presentation Tuesday evening it struck me how differently I and perhaps a lot of my clients and prospects view the role of government.
Topics: Accountability, leadership, Topgrading
Several of my clients and prospects have recently asked for my coaching help to elevate the management teams in their organizations. The question often asked is how do you go about improving leaders and managers?
Topics: Good to Great, Core Values, leadership, Core Purpose, Jim Collins
Topics: leadership, A Players, Topgrading
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The Strategic Discipline Blog focuses on midsize business owners with a ravenous appetite to improve his or her leadership skills and business results.
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