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Fell Apart Presenting to Senior Executives? Ask Madeleine
I was asked to present to the senior leadership team and the board of my company. I was excited and nervous—and prepared, I thought—but probably not enough as it turns out. Just as I was about to begin, I kind of lost my mind. I started to sweat uncontrollably and my...
The 4 A’S of Strategic Execution : The First 2 — Alignment and Ability
To re-cap, the 4A model of strategic execution is a system of interrelated and interdependent factors. Here we have looked at alignment and ability.But executional capability also requires infrastructure, processes, structure, and systems to make things scalable and...
The Perilous Pursuit of Leadership
It’s deep in many of us -- perhaps most of us -- to want to be a leader. To need to be a leader. To be recognized as a leader. But leadership can be as dangerous as it is desirable.After all, Nero, Castro and Caligula were leaders. So was Ivan the Terrible and Attila...
Rest—Investing Time to Become a Better Leader
Recently, one of our team members at the John Maxwell Company shared an interesting struggle in his life: he’s forgotten how to rest. Some of the team was gathered for lunch and he volunteered his thoughts as everyone was talking. “I just feel like, when I’m resting,...
Of leadership and Strategic Implementation
“To excel at strategy, we must first understand what it is” - Carl von ClausewitzLeadership is critical to formulating and implementing strategy, and implementation requires strategic leadership. Yet some organizations seem to get a bit confused when it comes to...
Three Essential Leadership Strategies From Lyft’s Chief Business Officer
David Baga, Lyft’s outgoing Chief Business Officer, is no stranger to building teams. At both Lyft and Rocket Lawyer—where he served as the Chief Revenue Officer—Baga grew the sales teams from one person (himself) to a team of over 100, high-performing employees. This...
Decoding Digital Transformation in Construction
After spending five years and countless sums on trialing new software platforms and ways of working, the executive team at a large contractor was nearly ready to call an end to its digital-transformation program. Dozens of attempts to streamline projects with digital...
How Disruptive Innovation Makes Some Colleges Into Ants And Others Into Grasshoppers
When Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that as many as half of American colleges could go bankrupt in the next 10 to 15 years, most of the leadership of American higher education refused to believe it. It is an old and dangerous...
Tools and Techniques for Effective Communication: The Platinum Rule
The late, great Gerald Rosen, a contracts professor at Loyola Law School, used to say, “If you can't get them on the merry-go-round, get them on the swings; if you can't get them on the swings, get them on the slide; if you can't get them on the slide, get them on the...