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How Clear Purpose Drives Expansion
A leader must set and articulate clear purpose to build and expand their business. In the mid-1960s, my dad had an interest in growing grapes and making good wine. He believed that Michigan had the potential to do so. He had no big plans to grow thousands of vines or...
Employee-Owned Work from Home Strategies
“Our growth depends on our culture. Our culture depends on our ability to collaborate effectively.” Recently I have had the opportunity to speak with many of my executive clients about the impact of the pandemic on their culture. They are concerned about the negative...
The Cat who Slept in a Drawer
“They didn’t warn me,” Olivia, the cat. When big change happens in your organization, it’s crucial to be sure everyone knows what’s happening and why. I recently visited my daughter in Colorado. She and my granddaughter have been strictly following...
One Simple Way to Keep Employees Enrolled
Now more than ever, you risk losing your employees’ attention. Watch this video for one simple thing you can do to support them more effectively. https://youtu.be/iCsB6njoAwE I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please go out to LinkedIn to add your comments....
Things You Can Do Today to Magnify your Leadership
Now is a great time to build your leadership. Here’s a brief video describing a few things you can do today to magnify your leadership. https://youtu.be/AOEMeadYOi4 Related to this, I’m thrilled to invite you to a free, virtual event hosted by my friends at Slalom...
Mitigating Cross Functional Dysfunction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCQO0l4AaM With most employees working from home, now is a great time for cross-functional dysfunction to creep into your organization. Take steps today to mitigate its negative impacts. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this article....
How to Use a Change Curve
This is a simple tool anyone can use to assess the state of the team regarding business readiness. Studies indicate that a leading cause of strategy implementation failure is the lack of alignment of the leadership team. Typically, this means they are not aligned on...
Business Readiness
Change management is such an obscure term – it’s really about business readiness. I’ve been doing this work for decades, and I have never really thought of it as managing change. Rather, I think of it as preparing the business for change, or business readiness for...
He is Rich Who Owns the Day
Photo by Julie Kwak on Unsplash My father was a student of men such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over Christmas weekend I was going through some of my father’s things and found this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Write it on your heart that every...
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