by Chris Edwards | Nov 13, 2018 | Execution
The old adage “if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there” reminds us that action without direction can be a fruitless endeavor. Without a plan, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to achieve our goals within a given timeframe. This is why the...
by Ben Anderson-Ray | Oct 11, 2018 | Clarity
In 1999, Ram Charan wrote about why CEOs fail and estimated that 70% of the time it was not an issue of strategy but rather an issue of execution.1 What was true then applies equally today. Most organizations do have strategy. The question is whether they understand...
by Susan Diehl | Aug 30, 2018 | Team
Humble, hungry, smart. Communicative, collaborative, collegial. Driven but flexible.Tough, but easy going. These are just some of the many characteristics team members are asked to demonstrate. These attributes are usually layered on top of the “core competencies”...
by Chris Edwards | Jul 17, 2018 | Team
Most business leaders are on two teams, the team they’re on and the team they lead for the team they’re on. For example, many top-level business leaders are members of their company’s senior leadership team and lead one of their company’s key business functions (e.g.,...
by Ben Anderson-Ray | May 30, 2018 | Team
The term “team” is often used to describe just about any group within organizations: sales teams, ops teams, even entire companies get referred to as teams. Similarly, many companies declare that they value teamwork. Some even have it in their core values. In my...
by Susan Diehl | Apr 10, 2018 | Leadership
5 Steps to Grow Your Leadership Skills, Even If You Are Not A “Born Leader” I have frequent debates with friends as to whether leaders are born or made. Leadership evokes images of people with great charisma, great vision and the capability to inspire others to take...
by Jack Lyons | Mar 12, 2018 | Book Review
John Maxwell is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Leadership. John has trained millions of people and written over 50 books. Like many other authorities on Leadership, John would agree that Leadership is about Setting Direction, Aligning People, Motivating...
by Chris Edwards | Mar 1, 2018 | Leadership
As most business leaders know, to be successful their companies need to process driven. They need clearly defined processes in place to manage engineering, manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing, accounting, etc. Yet, many business leaders fail to recognize...
by Ben Anderson-Ray | Dec 12, 2017 | Execution
When we begin working with companies, one thing we often hear from a CEO is their desire to build an accountability culture. Accountability, like any of the key traits of an organization’s culture, starts with the CEO and is amplified by the senior leadership team....
by Chris Edwards | Nov 29, 2017 | Execution
Friction Slows Companies Down, Alignment Speeds Them Up Success in business is a function of eliminating the friction that slows companies down and building and maintaining the alignment that speeds them up. As with mechanical things business alignment is a front-end...
