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What You May Be Missing That is Holding You Back From Success

That “Culture Thing”

My concern is that the companies are fixing the wrong issue under an umbrella of a “culture thing.” When things go wrong we want to fix the cause of the problem, not its manifestation. The root cause of employees not […]

Governors as Leaders- Leadership Insight

As a retired Alaska oil industry executive, I have been involved to varying degrees in several of the pipeline projects with as many as four different governors. The question Rhonda asked me is should a governor be a “ranch boss” […]

Organization Transformation

“Nothing endures but change” is a quote attributed to Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, who was active around 500 BCE. Change has been a constant in my entire 40-year career, and I have hired and worked with many consulting companies that […]

Own Your Self Story

In the Applied Leadership Seminar we talk about how leaders shape a future for their organization through the conversations they have and the things they choose to talk about. Our conclusion is that in order to create a future one […]

Are You Talking to Your Boss?

I get anxious stares from my seminar attendees when I say, “If you are not in a steady state conversation with your boss, you do not have a relationship with him or her.” I go on to say, “If there […]

Ask for a raise?

It was reported in The Wall Street Journal (See “Gender Wage Gap reflects ‘ask’ Gap” by John Bussey 10/10/2014) that there’s a storm of unrest occurring in the female ranks of Microsoft over a statement CEO Satya Nadella made at […]

What Message are You Sending? The role of messaging in performance management.

I don’t think there is such a thing as a perfect performance metric. They all have a dark side, i.e., some feature that causes people to behave in a way that was not intended. Although the literature is loaded with […]

GM Leadership Lesson Update

I continue to monitor the evolving General Motors situation. This past week CEO Mary Barra testified before a Congressional Committee regarding the recall of millions of vehicles due to a faulty ignition switch that was the purported cause of dozens […]

Something Went Wrong With The Process

In a video to employees on March 17, 2014, GM CEO Mary Barra said, “Something went wrong with the process and terrible things happened.” She acknowledged mistakes that led GM to wait nearly a decade before fixing a defective ignition […]