Coaching
“Thank God It’s Monday” | What is Big Company Syndrome?
“Thank God It’s Monday” | What is Big Company Syndrome? This week’s focus: Leadership Innovation. How to tell if your company is plagued with big company syndrome.
Leadership
Why The Red Sox Won The World Series
The resounding World Series victory boils down to one word: Leadership. The Boston Red Sox won because they had a better manager, better hitting and better pitching. The Red Sox manager out managed the Los Angeles Dodger’s manager. Here’s how I see it. Clayton Kershaw, the Dodger’s ace pitcher, allowed Read more…
Leadership
Honoring Senator John McCain
I’ve thought and read quite a bit about the late Senator John McCain since Saturday evening when I learned the Senator had passed. One tweet really stood out to me from Kasie Hunt (@kasie), a NBC News Correspondent on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.: Sometimes people ask me why I Read more…
Innovation
Great Examples Of Collaboration And Sportsmanship
Here are 2 things that caught my attention this past week: How superior collaboration led to the safe rescue of the Thai soccer team The sportsmanship displayed at the FIFA world cup finals Collaboration: The Thai soccer team rescue was due to incredible collaboration by some 900 rescuers. It was Read more…
Leadership
H&M Group Inventory Gone Wild
H&M Group, a Swedish clothing retailer with 4,300 stores globally at the end of 2017, has a major problem: US$4 billion of clothes that it can’t sell as a CNN article suggests. The board seems to be a bit paralyzed over what to do about this problem. They are afraid that Read more…
Innovation
A Par Won’t Move You Up The Leaderboard
A simple Google search for the word “par” reveals, “the number of strokes a first-class player should normally require for a particular hole or course.” For example, a par five would be completed with 5 strokes to make par on a par five hole. This definition reveals why I’m far from Read more…
Leadership
Are You Unintentionally Demeaning Yourself?
One of the things I often hear people say is, “I can’t say that. I’m just a _____.” This is so demeaning to you personally and devalues the perspective you bring. Usually, the person thinking “I’m just a ______” is positioning themselves on a lower level within a hierarchy. The Read more…
Innovation
Becoming More Valuable Year After Year
In an article I authored for FastCompany.com called How Much Experience Do You Have?, I quoted my then CEO, Harold Pinto, who offered: “Someone who repeats the same year of their life fifteen times doesn’t have 15 years of experience; they have one year of experience repeated fifteen times.” Employees Read more…
Leadership
MCPs Are Alive & Well in Silicon Valley
MCP stands for “male chauvinist pig.” The expression took hold in the late 60s and 70s and held the energy that “men were superior” and, somehow, entitled to treat women as second-class citizens. Most corporations that I worked for conducted trainings to drill bad habits out of the men to Read more…
Leadership
Lessons Learned from London’s Grenfell Towers Fire
Just a few short weeks ago, I wrote in Government Regulations Add Value: Government regulations have their genesis in addressing previously unknown shortcomings or problems. The recent Grenfell Towers fire in London where some 73 people are believed to have perished is blamed on builders and regulators putting cost over Read more…