Category: Corporate Culture

The End of Money as Power

The End of Money as Power

Posted by | Feb 8, 2016 | , , | 2

How many times have we heard that “money is power?” It is one of those cliches that has been spoken so many times that one assumes it must be true. Perhaps it was. In both the political and the business world there is a tectonic shift that is proving that what may have been true at some time in the past, is no longer true today. Understanding the on-going shift to other forms of power is essential to successful business and political strategy, now and into the future.

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Strategy Execution – The CEO’s Greatest Challenge

Strategy Execution – The CEO’s Greatest Challenge

Posted by | Nov 18, 2015 | , , , , | 0

Research by the Conference Board and by researchers reporting in the Harvard Business Review (March 2015) report that the execution of strategy is their greatest concern. The Conference Board’s recent Survey of CEOs revealed that chief executives are so concerned about strategy execution that they rated it as both their number one and number two most challenging issue. Agile Strategy Execution is a solution to the problem.

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Amazon versus The New York Times

Amazon versus The New York Times

Posted by | Aug 18, 2015 | , , , | 3

I suggest that both Bezos and those interviewed for the Times article are honestly and accurately portraying the culture as seen through their eyes and their experience. Amazon is straddling the Barbarian and Builder/Explorer stage of my life cycle model. This is a good place to be in an external environment that is filled with rapidly emerging competitors and changing technologies. If you aren’t conquering you are probably about to be conquered!

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Drop the Debates, Begin the Dialogues

Drop the Debates, Begin the Dialogues

Posted by | Aug 10, 2015 | , | 7

Imagine your CEO, each time he or she was challenged, turning on the person asking the question and proclaiming “you’re loser” or, “that’s because you’re stupid!” My mother, and probably your own, taught me not to call others names. Someone said “turn the other cheek.” Why in politics is this kind of response apparently acceptable to so many people when it should immediately be recognized as uncivil behavior and a disqualification for any public office?

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Coaching and Culture Change: The Missing Link

Coaching and Culture Change: The Missing Link

Posted by | Apr 18, 2015 | , , , , | 0

If you go through my Team Leadership (Team Kata) course you will quickly be confronted with the strong suggestion that every manager and every team have a coach to lead them through the steps of lean implementation and to provide feedback to the leader and team. But, you ask, where are we going to get all these coaches? Here is a clear answer.

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