Category Archive for: ‘Leadership’
A Strategic Planning Alternative
Should your organization create a strategic plan? Maybe. Should your organization plan for the future? Absolutely. What’s the difference? The first is about producing a product. Think binders and PowerPoint presentations. The second is about a process. My personal bias is that the first is best used in two situations. When you have a brand new organization that needs to …
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Don’t Reorganize Until Answering 7 Questions
Repeat after me. Changing the org chart is a big deal. And yet many organizations treat it like a simple solution to a wide range of problems. They are constantly redrawing lines and putting new names in the boxes. In some cases these changes are the right solution. In others, it masks an underlying problem that people either haven’t yet …
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The Executive Team Must Model Teamwork
Many argue that the ultimate measure of a senior leadership team’s success should be the organization’s performance results. And yet there are companies that due to favorable market conditions do quite well in spite of their dysfunctional leadership teams. Imagine what could happen if the team at the top was able to get its act together. Is your leadership team …
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