by admin | Feb 18, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
A great candidate for the dustbin of discarded business jargon is the term ‘transformation.’ Correctly used by caterpillars transforming into butterflies or by dictatorships into democracies, the word has been appropriated by executives and consultants to signal ‘BIG...
by admin | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Self-Awareness
In my practice, I often coach “high potential” executives, so named because they’re part of a select pool of talent from which a company’s future leaders will be chosen. As is typical in these coaching relationships, one of my key roles is to listen deeply. I hear a...
by admin | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
Linda, the CEO of a technology oriented firm, told me her company’s pending merger with a logistics company was a ‘match made in heaven.’ The two companies were complementary, not identical, so it wasn’t about cutting cost (or jobs); it was more about synergy and...
by admin | Jan 6, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
Fast Company recently featured CEOs from major corporations like 3M, Pepsico, Starbucks, and others sharing lessons from 2012 and describing how these lessons will apply in the coming year. While we don’t roll in the same company as these folks, we still learned...
by admin | Dec 12, 2012 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
Too many leaders make fast (and wrong) decisions in the face of disagreement. They trust their own thinking, and then justify their decision based on what they interpret as positive results. Yet they fail to consider the cost of rejecting an opposing view that would...
