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Want More Innovation? Focus on the Team

In a recent post on Innovation Weekly, Tamara Chandour noted that “team innovation is the secret sauce to a business’s success.” As we discuss in some of our vistage CEo meetings, that means, removing the barriers and getting a team to innovate on a regular…

The Challenge of Innovation Inertia

People love talking about innovation because it generally makes life better. Yet institutions…

There’s No Place in a Performance Culture for “Simple Sabotage”

Engaged Employees Make Recruitment and Retention Easier

Don’t Settle for Less

Last year, one of the common leadership themes which our CEOs started addreessing is the negative effects of tolerating…

Change is Hard: Here are 5 ways to Accomplish It

The #1 Attribute of Leadership: Inspiration

For years, as a coach and mentor to CEOs and other executives, I’ve helped them adopt and polish skills on how to be more effective in leading their companies. Recalling that this is the 50th anniversary of the US moon landing (and successful return of…

More Evidence that “Less Is More”

Allen Root, a writer for Barron’s (part of Dow Jones) recently made an observation concerning…

Are You Asking These Five Questions?

Leaders need to keep their teams challenged. They don’t need to have all the answers; rather they need to ask the right questions and help their teams find the right answers and apply them.