John Izzo & Jeff Vanderwielen, Authors, The Purpose Revolution In a survey of global CEO’s, Harvard found that over 83% of them said they believed activating purpose within their organization would impact their company’s performance and success, yet only one-third of those same leaders felt they were doing a good job of doing so. In our new book, The […]
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Could you be confusing that favorite story with an anecdote? Before I mention why it matters, you’re probably wondering why so many blogs and books in the last few years have urged you to learn to tell a great story. Here’s why. Stories make things stick. CEOs, entertainers, professional speakers, trainers, and leaders have learned
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Riaz Khadem Add up all the time wasted doing things that aren’t important in your organization—by you, your direct reports and those reporting to you indirectly. You’ll probably end up with a large number. That number represents your organization’s misalignment. We once facilitated an executive session with a large company that included three levels of
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Jack Litewka, Author, THE SOPHISTICATED MANAGER: Essential Leadership Lessons for Developing High-Performance Team… and Avoiding Critical Mistakes A CEO creates the Corporate Culture. This activity deserves and requires careful thought and communication. If this activity is considered a “nice-to-have”, then the resulting culture is random and becomes “cultural transmission by osmosis” – which is not the
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Larry Kendall, Author, Ninja Selling “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” President John F. Kennedy, Man on the Moon Speech Joint Session of Congress May 25, 1961 President Kennedy’s “We choose
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Joseph A Michelli, Author, Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way Columnist and author Irving Kristol once suggested that leaders need to define that “one big thing and stick with it.” Whenever I consider offering customer experience consulting services for a prospective business client, I interview senior leadership and ask a lot of
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Ann Skeet, Director of Leadership Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University Since the story broke that VW deliberately buried emissions results in its software, plenty has been written about this case of corporate malfeasance, perhaps more than any since Enron. The Volkswagen brand crisis seems fairly straightforward to me. With
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Sitting above the clouds let’s us dream about the future for our business, but blocking off time and getting off site with your team is how you make that dream a reality.
Tommy Spaulding, President, Spaulding Companies The Brown Palace Hotel in Denver has been one of the most elegant establishments in Colorado since its founding in 1892. It was named one of the world’s 500 best hotels by Travel & Leisure and every U.S. president since Teddy Roosevelt (except Calvin Coolidge) has been a guest at
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The self-help industry and the associated cult of positivity often leave us with an incomplete picture of the environment we find ourselves in. We end up seeing only opportunity without risk and end up relying on hope as a strategy. But just as crucially, this partial view of reality robs us of the positive potential
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