One of the most common reasons companies stall or plateau is a leadership team that doesn’t follow through on its commitments. Let me be clear – everyone needs to be responsible for their actions (or inaction). So what I’m about to say isn’t to absolve individuals of their responsibility. Buuuuuuut… If you as the CEO […]
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Celebrate business founders – but for the right reason
“Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty. You are at the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you.” Sadly, the stats on […]
You can’t have it all. But you can have what’s important
I get somewhat fed up seeing and hearing advice about how you can “have it all”. Sure, at some level, usually a transactional one, you can go from either/or to both/and. But at a life level? At a company level? Or at a country level (the main reason I don’t envy politicians)? Not so much. […]
Reasons your team won’t do what you told them to do
One of the most common frustrations I’ve heard from CEOs and managers more generally is “But I told them ….” Whether it’s to do something or to behave a certain way (e.g. values). But “telling them” isn’t enough. Here are some reasons your team may not be doing what you “told them”. There’s a culture […]
Where strategy goes to die #8 – A masterpiece of spreadsheets, not humans
A strategy articulated by the most beautiful and elegant diagram of neatly-fitting geometric shapes is often laid waste by the less elegant actions of totally ungeometrically-shaped and unpredictable objects. Humans. The military’s long known this. The noted and successful Prussian general military strategist Von Clausewitz based much of his strategy work on it. (See the […]