Trying to Get Your Employees to Do What You Want?
I was working with a CEO named Jeff the other day who was frustrated with one of his employees. This employee—Paul, the leader of an important business unit—wasn’t doing what Jeff would ask of him. This in turn was putting a wrench in the works of the business, and allowing the competition to creep in.…
A LIFE STRATEGY IS AS ESSENTIAL AS A BUSINESS STRATEGY
Realizing workforce potential is an urgent business topic today, yet while many ideas are offered, a sustainable framework remains elusive. Constant change is the new normal; building solutions for HR and organizational design, strategically, must be both simple and adaptive. What defines a modern strategy for creating a highly-optimized workforce? To instill motivation, we need…
YOUR TEAM IS LESS ALIGNED THAN YOU THINK
What most leaders assume about their organization or about any other person is that they have a much, much greater shared reality and perspective than really exists. If the person you’re speaking to agrees with your point of view, the natural human reaction is to assume that this agreement extends to alignment on every aspect of the topic.
Let me give you an example. Say a CEO tells his team, we’re going to focus on channel sales because channel is a much higher leverage approach for us….
THE DNA OF EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS
Are you exploring the possibility of a business partnership? Startup Genome did a study on 50,000 startups and found the companies that grew fastest and were most successful had not one founder, not three founders, but two co-founders. There is a special synergy that can happen through partnership that can unlock more creativity, more accountability,…
