#1: Your mission is actually a project or goal. #2: Your vision isn’t objectively measurable. #3: Your team doesn’t have a common definition of success. #4: There is ongoing role confusion within or across your […]
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#1: The Resistor – “This will never work.”, “We tried this before.”, “It will fail like all the other times.” How to vanquish: Be curious. Explore their experiences. Understand what they noticed then and what
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Strategic leadership is required to move companies through seismic shifts in their markets. That leadership begins with deciding – or changing – what they will be. Case #1 – A company’s mission is to reduce
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Strategic leadership requires energy. How do you keep top of your game with so many things distracting from our goals and detracting from our focus. Here is a three step process for getting and staying
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In nearly every organizational and cultural transformation I’ve facilitated there has been at least some lack of cohesion at the executive level: different definitions of culture, different ideas of leadership and little to no actual
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The Uncommon Strategic Leadership Model works with 5 Realms of Alignment: Mission, Vision, Strategy, Execution and Performance. The Strategy Realm is often the trickiest. It’s where ethereal vision meets cold hard reality. It’s where what
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CONGRATULATIONS! You got the offer! You accepted! Woo Hoo!!! Ready to fling yourself headlong into the new work and show them how awesome you are? Not so fast, Buckaroo! While most of us overachievers can’t
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I have failed in some truly spectacular fashion over the years. There was the time I lost it over the company P.A. system – with the mic ON. There was time I failed spectacularly to
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Every. Single. Manager. We were in the middle of a major organizational transformation. Our business model needed to change, the type of skill sets and talent needed to be different and the culture needed to
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My undergraduate degree was a B.A. in Interpersonal Communication and Rhetoric. I loved the major. We studied political communication, social communication, gender communication and marketing communication. We read Aristotle, Socrates and Plato. We argued the
