Don’t miss your Bernie moment
In every merger or acquisition, there’s a company and set of leaders who “won” or will “win” in terms of their ideas, processes, and culture coming through stronger. Don’t miss your “Bernie Moment”, the opportunity to change minds and align teams.
Peer accountability is critical to success in teams
Escalations and circles of perceived accountability should be the exception and not the rule. Every hour spent dealing with someone else’s drama or problems is an hour you could be driving value. Try to build a culture of universal accountability and see how much more you can get done.
Hire for character and values
If you are going to make a significant hiring decision, why not spend the extra time to make it the right decision. Hire for “fit” for character and values. You will be happier. they will be happier. And, the company will benefit for the extra time you took.
Email still a massive productivity drain
E-mail makes work effective and allows people to remotely collaborate — but it’s also a giant hit to productivity. A big, time sinking, eyeball tiring, productivity drain.
Expectations of Senior Leaders
The crux of the message is this: You are the leaders of this organization and hold the keys to success. When given a role as a leader, you must immediately transform yourself from an individual contributor that must manage up, to a leader that must manage up, down, and sideways. Here is what I expect of my senior leaders.
Trust, Accountability, Empowerment: All that matters
Building relationships based on respect People who have worked with me before have heard me on this particular soapbox quite a bit and for those I will suggest maybe they don’t need to read this particular blog. There will be nothing new here. That said, it is perhaps because I continue to hear stories from […]
Ready. Aim. Do it. (New Beginning)
A New Beginning Every day is a new beginning. All of life provides opportunities for new beginnings. Whatever has gone wrong, or right, in your life, you can begin again. Jonathan L. Huie New beginnings can be nerve wrecking. You spend years building a team, finding the people you can trust to get things done […]