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This One Step Can Increase Your Team’s Odds of Success

30 percent…and I think that’s generous. That’s the success rate for digital transformation noted in a recent BCG study.  Using that as a benchmark, let’s talk about a tip that can help you improve those odds, and in fact, the odds of completing any significant organizational improvement work. Before we get into the specific coaching, […]

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5 Ways to Get Your Transformation Teams Back on Track

I’ve noticed a fresh challenge for teams charged with problem solving and strategy implementation work that’s been coming up consistently. The scenario sets up something like this: a significant issue with a product or service arises.  Mirroring pre-COVID protocols, the account manager calls a session and tags everyone who might have a hand in the […]

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Need a Better Blueprint to Roll Out Strategy This Year?

Right now, running a business is anything but typical – we’ve had a decade’s worth of shifts in a year. So, if you give teams the usual high-altitude operating plan for 2021, you risk not getting the outcomes your stakeholders are expecting.   Every larger firm I work with has some outlook tool for budgeting and […]

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A Subtle Leadership Lesson From the Super Bowl

It was billed as a clash of titans – the greatest of all time against the young upstart.  Analysts spent the run up exploring match ups and prognosticating.   The forecast: Chiefs should win (more about that here and here). There were good reasons to believe that this could happen, most pointedly perhaps the week 12 drubbing […]

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The Paradox of Highly Proactive Teams Creating Their Own Chaos

Three different coaching calls with three different firms to address the gridlock on their cross-functional teams. Although each of their circumstances are unique, all three teams are wrestling with the same root cause and a hidden pattern that might be affecting your team as well.  Teams are exhausted coming into 2021.  For leaders who are […]

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Harnessing the Power of Conflict in Your Firm

In my calls with clients, I’m hearing that 2021 is starting in an edgier, more conflictive space.  Leaders are sharing with me that they are noticing more push back and challenge from their subordinates, peers and bosses. Some of this is simply a very human response to the anxiety of living with the pandemic. It’s […]

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Getting to the Healthy Side of Organizational Change

I have several clients in larger, matrixed firms that are in the midst of restructuring.  Many firms were already poised for a shift and then the mother of all triggers hit.  The clients I’m working with are successful, larger private and publicly-traded companies, all of which found success both before and during the COVID crisis. […]

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On Team Disengagement and Fatigue

You are the person and for ‘21 you are feeling very accountable: the path of the P&L is on your shoulders.  If you are coming into the year with momentum, then congratulations…it’s easier to change the direction of an object that’s in motion. Here’s the insight: that momentum is created along process paths.  Those processes […]

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