How to be a Remarkable Leader — Lead with Questions
The most important thing in my engineering education was that it taught me to question even those things I thought I knew. I learned that wisdom comes from insightful questions...
How to challenge conventional thinking for breakthrough success
I do not like normal. Creating new rules for games, tearing things apart to make them work better felt natural when I was growing up. I always challenge conventional thinking. Some view...
How to Create A High-Performance Team
"If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.” — Thomas Edison We all want to be part of a successful high-performance team. However, it happens to all of...
How to Build a Successful Startup Team: Common Mistakes to Avoid
Launching a new venture is thrilling, but finding the right team is essential for lasting success. Whether you're starting a tech startup, a creative agency, or a retail business, building...
How to work smarter, not harder
Do you ever feel like there are not enough hours in the day? That your to-do list is never-ending, and you’re not making any progress? You're not alone. But, have...
Unlock potential – value your employees as individuals
The industrial control management model of the 20th century was based on the idea that people were interchangeable cogs in a machine-like system. The focus was on optimizing efficiency and...
How You Can Best Manage Your Remote Employees
Many organizations are figuring out how to work remotely and manage remote employees. Some are better prepared than others. Moreover, some operational processes are better suited for remote work than...
Why Mentors are Good, and Coaches are Better
More than a decade ago, I read a story in Fortune about Bill Campbell — Silicon Valley's Best-Kept Secret. He was a football coach turned salesperson. Somehow, Campbell became so...
How to Create a Breakthrough in Organizational Performance
What’s the most significant thing you can do to ensure organizational performance so that progress continues? Adopting an evidence-based mindset, an open-minded attitude that would seek to identify what has...
How to Build Your Start-Up Team for Success
A common failure for entrepreneurs is they “live in a vacuum,” as Steve Tobak put it in his post on Entrepreneur. Noteably, they become razor focused on their idea and vision,...
How to Radically Improve Brainstorming—Brainwriting—42% more original ideas
Our recent post “How to use the collective intelligence in the room” sets out guidance for meeting in general. In this post, we discuss “brainwriting,” the research behind it, and...
What we need is outstanding teamwork around here!
We hear the above refrain in all organizations. There is a consensus that teamwork is the key to improving organizational performance. Similarly, 94 percent of leaders believe performance management drives...
Simple Strategies to Build a Collaborative Workplace
Workplaces will always have people who like to fly solo — dark horses, rogues, nonconformists and the individual geniuses. However, as the benefits of collaboration become more evident to the...
How to use Neuroscience for Remarkable Business Success
I help leaders develop self- mastery, helping them to become confident in their inner guidance. Moreover, I collaborate with leadership experts, managers and HR professionals to help them get their...
Want to Make the Right Decision? You Should Not Be So Quick to Go with Your Gut.
Intuition is an essential trait of executives. However, you ought to resist the urge to go immediately with your gut when weighing a significant business matter to arrive at the...
People leave managers, not organizations
We have all heard it before that people leave managers, not organizations. The top benefit any employee can have is an excellent manager. However, no one is talking about it....
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