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Culture & Structure
What’s Your Company’s Trust Rating?
Trust is earned. When someone says they “trust” you or your company, they’re telling you that they believe in...
How Empowering Is Your Culture?
At this stage, we all know the importance of culture. Peter Drucker told us how important it is that your company is...
Make the Most of Teamwork and Collaboration Opportunities
As 2022 approaches, many companies are trying to bring people back into their offices at least part-time. The...
What’s the goal: Peak Performing Individuals or Teams
In the opening 2021 Olympics game of Basketball, there was a major “upset”. The US team, which won 25 consecutive...
Align Your Executive Team for Peak Performance
One of the most important elements of a successful company is a strong Executive Team. Whether you’re forging...
Leadership
Are You Pursuing a Goal or a Mission?
In 1961 President Kennedy set a goal for the United States: ”I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving...
Don’t Delay Developing People’s Leadership Potential
Recently, a former college professor who asked me several times to deliver guest lectures on presentations and...
Leaders Enable Other Leaders to Make Better Decisions
Every coin has two sides; for every Yin there is a Yang. When you think about leaders, you probably think about...
How Does Your Leadership Style Impact on Your Company?
How well do we really know our cultures? For a CEO, it’s important that you have confidence in your vision for the...
Leaders: Keep Your Culture True to Your Ethical Principles
Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with lots of high integrity leaders who are at the cutting...
Presentations & Communication
Can Journaling make you a Better Presenter
For the last three decades, we’ve helped executives at every stage of development become better presenters. Our...
Put on Your Presentation Hat Before You Negotiate
Veronica Dagher’s article “The Complete Guide to Haggling” reminded me that, while some people love haggling most of...
Three-to-Five Points is More than Enough
When you’re pitching an audience to get them to purchase a product or service or to accept a new idea that you’re...
Win More Deals By Disclosing Strategic Trade-offs
Recently, a group of CEOs and I were discussing strategy: how to design it, execute it, and hold people accountable...
Henry Kissinger’s Presentation Techniques
Recently, Henry Kissinger, the distinguished advisor to presidents and other leaders, celebrated his 100th birthday....
Strategy
“Pre-mortems” Can Lead to More Successes
Are you using “pre-mortems” to increase the probability of a project’s success? I learned about pre-mortems years ago...
Presenting for Change: What’s Your Audience Perspective?
The stakes for presentations vary. Traditional investor, management, and marketing ones are important to the players,...
Clarity on Employee Coaching
A key practice that Stephen Covey told us to adopt in his classic book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,...
Tips to Better Coach Your Executives
As companies grow, it becomes increasingly important for CEOs and other executives to improve their coaching skills so...
What Could Innovation Do for Your Company?
As human beings, there’s one set of innovations we’re all waiting for: effective vaccines for Covid-19 and ways to...
Trends
Build Staff’s Innovation Skills
We know that innovation is important to our companies and to our economy. How to maximize the opportunity is the...
Work-life Integration
As technology enabled people to communicate and/or engage on work projects outside the office, people started focused...
The Human Side of Automation
In the short run, the automation of physical and knowledge work advances, many jobs will be redefined to permit and...
Drive the Longevity Economy
Today, 60 million Americans are 60+ years old; every day for the next 14 years, 10,000 people turn 65. By 2030, 20% of...
As Automation Accelerates….
Automation using Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being adopted in the workplace. Studies all noted that its...
Other
It’s Showtime!
Whether you deliver one or a thousand presentations, the last thing you need to address is your own energy. Yes,...
Build the Post Pandemic Life You Want
Some of the changes we’ve seen take place during the pandemic, such as engaged workers successfully working at home...
Are You Ready for “Mission-Critical?
For over three decades, I’ve been helping leaders design, produce and deliver winning “mission-critical”...
Your Life Purpose: Rethinking It?
We’re privileged to work with people through several organizational perspectives, and by integrating them, we have a...
Beware of Cognitive Biases, Especially Now
In times of great change and uncertainty, it’s important that you take the time to think things through. Daniel...