The 4 Subtle Attributes of an Effective Growth Leader

It was just another day at work…then the product manager and I were called into the boss’ office. My peer and I had just been briefed on the project that would be consuming our professional lives for the next nine months.  We needed to simultaneously design a new-to-the-world component and a manufacturing line to deliver […]

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How to be a Remarkable Sponsor for a Growth Program

You lead a global P&L and are on the fast track for senior executive leadership.  You are known for making hard trade-off decisions (you got through ‘08) and somehow find resources for new products, marketing spends, and distribution.  When you are in your core space of your P&L, all is well. You are confident, have […]

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The Essential Trio for Turning Your Strategy into Results

What’s the net present value of each of these two opportunities? Scenario one: Your sales team alerted you first: one of your top ten clients was about to move to a new supplier that offered a dramatically better service.  You pulled together the right group of subject matter experts and you got them in the […]

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Five Ways to Mitigate the Unavoidable Talent Shortage

  I’ve had three conversations recently with Growth Leaders at firms in unrelated industries, all with the same set of circumstances: each project had a solid approach, had done their market and product homework and had good early feedback.  The projected ROI’s were above each of the firm’s benchmarks. Yet when they put these programs […]

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Why Your HiPo Program Isn’t Enough

The talent shortage that we all knew was in the offing has arrived, and with it, the need to quickly accelerate promising candidates in the leadership pipeline.  With 10,000 baby boomers retiring each day, we know we need to equip the mid-senior talent we have in our firms as quickly as possible. This has led […]

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Growth Leadership: Practical Strategies for Keeping Momentum

Here are a few conversations I’ve had recently: A Growth Leader on the manufacturing team needs support from an oversubscribed support staff member for a major strategic initiative The leader of a new product line is preparing for a multi-week international road trip to launch the effort with local distribution teams An R&D leader who […]

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