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What elements are necessary for a team to achieve high performance? You may find yourself mentally listing off things like a strong work ethic or the ability to get through projects quickly and efficiently. While these are essential to success, there is another element you wouldn’t typically expect – how a team views failure or unexpected […]
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Three Choices That Will Make You an Accelerator By Craig W. Ross Accelerators can be found in every level of every organization; they get those around them to the point of realized potential more quickly and create faster, more efficient results. But, what is an Accelerator and how do you know if you
Jennifer Kahnweiler, Author, The Genius of Opposites In 1998 I accepted a job as a director of employee development at a utility company. I was pretty pumped with the chance to start some new initiatives. Amy was assigned as my assistant. I came full of enthusiasm and couldn’t get the words and ideas out fast
Raymond D. “Ray” Zinn, Author, Tough Things First Seth Godin recently identified some reasons why CEOs can be stupid, and he almost found the central theme (almost, but not quite). CEOs are human, and as such they fall prey to human emotions. One of the trickiest human functions is ego. In Godin’s blog, he listed
How can leaders move beyond assigning blame and putting out fires? Start with an arson investigation that includes looking for these early warning signs: 1. An inability among senior leaders to articulate the organization’s strategy Most leaders can explain what they plan to do this week or this quarter, but fewer have the ability to
You can live your life by one of two philosophes. You can choose to be the exception to any rule or you can choose to be the rule. There are always exceptions: JFK was the first-and last-Catholic in the White House and Chrissie Evert had a winning unorthodox backhand. But both of these are the
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By Craig W. Ross What do your employees know about you? The answer to that question has a more significant impact on your organization’s performance than you may realize. When given the opportunity to work with an organization, I like to ask team members to tell me about their CEO. The answers I get inform
Charles D. Morgan, CEO, PrivacyStar – Author, Matters of Life and Data I’ve been a CEO for nearly 40 years, and whenever anyone asks me what’s the most important thing I’ve learned about building successful companies, I answer with two words: corporate culture. Leadership is about what you do, not what you say, and a
Ethics brings to mind dusty volumes of impenetrable text, heated arguments that go nowhere, and an overbearing concern with political correctness. But my thirty years as an ethics consultant has taught me something different. Ethics is really about releasing the forces of innovation in an organization. The reason for this is simple. To have ethics
One day you see it clearly. Your employees are acting like owners. How did it happen? When did it happen? Why did it happen? These are all good questions. Chances are if your employees are acting like owners it is because you treat them like owners. What are the signs? Here are five big ones.
