I recently attended a presentation of “High Performance: How To Get It. How To Keep It” by Greg Bustin at a Vistage meeting in Orange County. Greg packed a lot of material into his three-plus hour presentation geared around formal planning. The idea I really sparked to, however, was the notion of consequences.
In designing accountability systems, [...]
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The Powerful Role of Consequences When We Are Overwhelmed
The Pitfall of Self-Referencing Leadership
In the process of growing up and becoming a successful leader, you most likely put together a set of well-developed values, beliefs, experiences, and capacities. You have probably done well at suppressing your emotions and demonstrating your rational thinking. Being successful means your mix has served you well; you have been rewarded, “bonused,” and encouraged [...]
Closing the “Lean Gap” in Leadership
I had a further conversation with Dan Markovitz of TimeBack Management yesterday regarding Lean Conversations and how to begin designing a rigorous assessment instrument. The objective being to give users a way to focus their actions on the most effective leverage points for reducing friction and waste in their everyday conversations and increasing productivity and effectiveness. Dan [...]
Lean Conversations For Productivity Breakthroughs
With this post we are introducing a set of ideas we have been evolving for over two years, that we call Lean Conversations. The fundamental notion is that academicians, consultants, leaders, and managers in our culture have focused on and accomplished tremendous gains in productivity through process improvement, supply chain management, IT, and a host of [...]
It’s Time To Renegotiate
As we observe our clients, and business trends we believe now is the time to renegotiate and ”re-contract” all of your relationships. In our post called the New Rules from early last year we said, “all bets are off” and “all the rules have changed.” Given all of the big pictures changes to doing business in the [...]
