Will your project or business cases undersell your team’s value? Again? What is your track record of success? Creating project or business cases is part of how you “do” your job. Regardless of whether you sell, manage, measure and fix and control, or serve. There is a template and a series of justifications / questions… [Continue Reading]
Why Project or Business Cases Undersell A Team’s Value
Does Working in Silos Prepare You to Lead Strategically?
If your goal is to lead strategically, consider the value of repeatedly seeking new jobs that keep you working in departmental silos. New job. New silo. Same old thing. Depending on your organization’s size, these silos can be big. Yet no matter how far you “travel” to collaborate cross-functionally, you never leave the silo you… [Continue Reading]
Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?
When you are managing teams for innovation, everyone focuses on creating better and better solutions. Otherwise, you reinforce stasis, or reliance on whatever worked yesterday. The concept and execution of managing for innovation is a hot topic in my keynotes, workshops and coaching. First, by focusing on innovation you and your team create outcomes which… [Continue Reading]
3 Ways to Avoid Professional Complacency in 2021
Will you avoid falling into a pattern of professional complacency during 2021? Or do you long for a permanent oasis from ambiguous and uncertain scenarios? When I ask this question to colleagues and clients, like you, the answer is: “a little bit of both, please”. Because the professionals and associations I serve seek consistency and… [Continue Reading]
6 Lessons I Learned From 2020 that I Carry Forward Into 2021
What. A. Year. Something no one can deny, regardless of where you sit around the business table. 2020 threw one tactical and strategic challenge at us after another. And while we still are processing what we learned during 2020, the year keeps up its relentless onslaught. Because we will drag the stuff left unresolved from… [Continue Reading]
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