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June 15, 2016
Chasing daunting financial and operating goals, many leaders are struggling to understand why their organizations are performing as they are, and what is making it so difficult to deliver and sustain better results. This post presents a simple and powerful framework fo...
June 1, 2016
One of the pervasive issues in business is the common tendency for leaders and teams to address some of the presenting symptoms of an issue, as opposed to all of its root causes.
Addressing symptoms may provide short term relief, but the issue soon re-emerges. To susta...
May 3, 2016
Excited to share that my submission on "the five disciplines of agile organizations" was voted last week as one of the top ideas in McKinsey's Agility Hackathon, a global community of business leaders convened to share best practices on agile organizations. You can see...
April 26, 2016
Industrial economy command organizations operated in protected markets. They approached these markets with a core discipline of preservation, based on a mindset of scarcity. In the open markets of today's digital economy, we need a new approach. Today's agile organizat...
March 23, 2016
Insightful article by David Collis in the latest issue of HBR. Building on his thesis, it might be useful to recognize that both top-down and bottom-up approaches include deliberate / analytical and emergent / learning characteristics. The difference, perhaps, is of t...
March 16, 2016
February 17, 2016
Howard Prager shares some insightful comments in three blog posts on ATD about new approaches to leadership development. Key elements include tight linkages with business goals and initiatives, a blend of learning experiences with an emphasis on application, and focus...
February 3, 2016
Jeffrey Pfeffer offers a thoughtful take on the real skills senior leaders need to be successful in today's environment - and the reading list to cultivate these.
January 28, 2016
While the research was done a few years ago, the lessons in McGrath's How The Growth Outliers Do It remain compelling - organizations that deliver exceptional long-term performance balance continual experimentation and innovation in products and businesses, with stabil...
January 26, 2016
Business leaders who aspire to build the great organizations of the next few decades should pay close attention to Frederic Laloux's fascinating book. Laloux offers a thoughtful and well-researched overview of some of the key design principles guiding the emerging 21s...
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