Striking the Balance Between Agility and Consistency
Change is the only constant and leaders must rise to the challenge consistently. Agility in such an environment and the ability to pivot and change tactics to ensure positive outcomes [...]
Defining and Improving Corporate Culture
Corporate culture is hard to define, yet culture is often cited by employers and employees as an important factor in talent placement. Further, Harvard researchers found that,“when aligned with strategy [...]
Identifying and Developing High Potential Employees
It’s a well-known maxim that the top 20% of employees are responsible for 80% of organizational output. Further, the top 5% and top 1% of employees account for 25% and [...]
Do Pep Talks Really Motivate Employees?
We’ve all seen the films: before a crucial game for an underdog team, a battle where the army is outnumbered, the coach or general exhorts the players or soldiers to [...]
Women CEOs: Good for Returns
Add this to the ever-growing pile of research that female executives are good for business: a study found that companies with women executives outperformed the benchmark index. Further, these companies [...]
Decision Making in a World Full of Noise
Today, more than ever, executives have the tools at their fingertips to make informed decisions based on rational data. Further, leaders are more aware of cognitive biases that interfere with [...]
What Leaders Can Learn from Artists
The Jazz Musicians (1954), David Park I recently came across an interesting article in The Harvard Business Review by Hal Gregerson, the executive director of the MIT Leadership [...]
New Leadership Imperative
NEW LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE: Create the future workforce In a recent report by Accenture Strategy, Harnessing Revolution: Creating the Future Workforce, research indicates that as different generations enter and exit the [...]
Future Leaders: Millennial Women
Depending on how you look at the millennial generation, they are either innovative and optimistic or entitled youth with outsized expectations. As with most things, the truth is somewhere in [...]
Harnessing Innovation with Non-Conformity
“Innovation is important—it solves problems today in a way that positions us to address the unforeseen problems of tomorrow.” The Rockefeller Foundation Innovation, and the creativity that fuels it, drive the [...]