To transform and improve business performance leaders must change the way they lead. Read this article to find out what behaviors must change and the core skills that leaders need to make change stick.
5 Tips to Engage and Effectively Manage People Remotely
What I Learned About Team Leadership While Climbing Mt. Everest
At 29,029 feet above sea level, Mt. Everest is the highest point on earth. I climbed Everest V3 in a group simulation with other faculty members of the Center for Leadership at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. By experiencing learning through doing, we learned how to deal with the rather challenging situation of climbing Everest, which perfectly simulated communication and decision-making challenges we all face while working in teams.
Are Your Managers Under-Managing?
3 Instruments to View Your Business and the World
Gain a deeper perspective. There are three ways to view your business and the world to ensure it's future viability. Close your eyes and imagine you have three optical instruments on your desk to view long term, the macro broad landscape that your business operates in, and the micro view of what's happening in your business.
Play War Games to Get Inside Your Competitor’s Head
We live in an era of disruption, and one thing is certain: the success or failure of your strategy hinges on what your competitors choose to do. Play a war game with your team to uncover blind spots, think like the competition, anticipate what they might do next, and plan your next moves to win in the market.
Is Your Company Moving in Slow Motion? Five Steps to Accelerate Speed
Do you sometimes feel like you are slogging knee-deep through a mud pit to get important initiatives implemented? No matter how slow the rest of your organization is to buy in to your ideas or get things done, here are five things you can do to speed things up and make transformational change happen.
How to Inspire Employees to Help Solve Business Problems
Internal and external challenges are omnipresent. In most organizations the burden for solving these challenges rests on the shoulders of company leaders. By adopting a transformational leadership style, employees will become more engaged and help solve the internal and external challenges a business faces faster and more accurately.
Framework to Create Sustainable Organizational Success
Here's a framework that maps a constellation of eight interacting factors that are key to create a highly engaged, high performing, multi-generational culture and team. THE RESULT: an organization that will achieve Sustainable Organizational Success and superior results in terms of:
+ profits and cash flow
+ ROIC
+ valuation
+ succession