Strategy

Why Most Executives Fail to Execute Strategy

The biggest challenge facing any executive is failing to execute strategy — especially those with a strong strategic orientation. Most are terrible at it as they are too internally focused. Also, they...

What Drives Employee Satisfaction

If you're looking to create a workplace culture that thrives and inspires continuous success, is fair and transparent. Here's what else provides employee satisfaction and makes people happy in their...

Three Changes to Empower Silicon Valley’s Women in Leadership

Lisa Hartley has been in the heart of Silicon Valley in marketing, sales and product leadership roles for two decades with human capital management software with companies including SuccessFinder, SuccessFactors,...

How to Solve Your Diversity Problems with System Thinking and Technology

If you are serious about enhancing diversity and inclusion within your organization, you must take a system view, and create buy-in from your team before you buy a suite of...

Secrets to Improving Your Leadership Communication

As a leader, effective communication is critical to supply details about the mission and vision of what you are trying to carry out. However, it is also essential to motivate,...

How to transform your workplace culture

Transforming your workplace culture is essential for success. Do you have the culture you need to achieve your strategy? Culture eats strategy for breakfast” - Peter Drucker Annual reviews, forced...

How the Best Job Ever Drives Remarkable Employee Engagement

Radio Flyer, the creator of the Little Red Wagon, has been creating smiles for over a century. My Little Red Wagon got a real workout. As a kid, I used...

Innovative Ideas and Insights Occur at the Intersection of Disciplines

Innovative ideas are not just about adding another feature or an adjacent market. You are already furiously working on these sorts of developments. Where are your chances of creating a...

The Board Sets the Direction — Moreover It Sets the Tone

In this insight about board dynamics, I offer lessons from 25+ years as a CEO and my broad experience as a board member. An organization’s chief executive officer is the...

Goal Alignment Program (GAP™) and the Theory of Constraints (TOC)

As highlighted in Viable Vision, using the Theory of Constraints (TOC) most companies today do not seem to have the right roadmap to their vision, which means their vision is not...

Visionaries See Trends — Innovation Makes It Real

Invention isn’t ruled by public opinion. While there is no such thing as a crystal ball, many big bets were executed because someone boldly envisioned a different future — one...

Setting Up A Business Strategy For Your Enterprise

You must choose which methods you will use, and for what purpose you will use them. These choices form what we call a strategy, a set of decisions an entrepreneur...

Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain — The New Dynamic Duo

Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies working together will become the new dynamic duo. Blockchain — encrypted, distributed ledgers will unlock new frontiers for artificial intelligence (AI) — another cutting-edge technology. AI...

How to use strategic insights to sustain employee success

The old rules no longer apply. Leaders cannot take anything for granted. In today’s economy, it is not the things we worry about that get us in the end. It...

Why 98% of Companies Do Not Achieve Their Sustainability Goals

Many CEOs want to make a difference. Convinced that companies should play a positive role in environmental stewardship and social development, they declare sustainability a top priority, launch a transformation...

How Executing with Excellence Creates Remarkable Value

The first management book that resonated with me was In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman. It was published in 1982. Moreover, it shaped my approach to...