When people ask: “What do you think?” are your recommendations fluffy and lightweight? Or is your response substantial: laser-focused on what people really need-to-know (and do)? Do you consider this question a form of polite business chit-chat, which you deflect in order to play it safe? Or are you compelled to truthfully answer the question… [Continue Reading]
Are Your Recommendations Lightweight or Need To Know?
Are Your Business Stories Making People Think Twice?
Are you leveraging business stories that make people think twice? Business stories provide rich, illustrative palettes upon which to engage people to move forward together. Are you intentionally – or unintentionally – causing people to think twice about their direction, speed, objectives, goals, and purpose? When business stories catalyze people to think and rethink about… [Continue Reading]
Are You More Comfortable Managing Change Or Creating Change?
Do you create change or are you more comfortable managing change? Describe what you are asked to do, the people you work with, and the environment and resources available to accomplish outcomes. These factors impact whether projects, people, and environments focus on creating, managing, or mitigating change. In every organization, there are managers and there… [Continue Reading]
Still Aiming At Yesterday’s Target, But It Is Today?
You know you are still aiming at yesterday’s target (but it is today) when: You identify at least three other available targets in the same vicinity which grab your attention, as well. So…. Instead of taking daily aim at yesterday’s target – KPIs, someone’s idea of to-do lists (and priorities) for you – you decide… [Continue Reading]
Do People Tune Out Or In Because Of Your Signal To Noise Ratio?
It is time to revisit your professional signal to noise ratio before you are tsunami’d by it. Over the past five years, I’ve written about its importance in your professional innovation and cross functional leadership success. Signal to noise ratio is the amount of desirable signal compared to the amount of background noise interfering with… [Continue Reading]
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