You and your team have worked hard for weeks to tee up a proposal for something very new, and you know it’s solid. Customer interest has been validated, you have identified a path to the market, and you have worked through how you might get a production team in place. Yet, somehow when the senior […]
I had dinner with a colleague recently who is heading up a new growth vector for his firm. The topic turned to one of those you don’t read about often: what happens if it goes sideways? I reminded him that everyone who has led one of these efforts experiences three phases of a journey. First […]
This week a colleague phoned, and after a moment of reconnection, shared a traumatic moment on an internal growth project. Long story short, there was a direct public challenge to their growth leadership in carrying out a key task. When I listened carefully to what the challenge was and its context, I recognized it to […]
I’ve worked as a practitioner, and currently as an advisor, in a very specific niche where I guide those leaders who are accountable for driving the growth of their firms. This might be the CEO of a smaller firm, or perhaps a member of the executive staff or a team for a large firm charged […]
One of the privileges of working with dozens of enterprises on their business growth around the world is seeing the intrinsic skills of what I have come to call their key “Growth Leaders.” By Growth Leader, I mean someone who regardless of the external factors of the business, is fantastic at finding the underlying emergent […]
I’ve been working with the senior team of a large public firm on developing vibrancy in their growth and renewal programs. One of the executives is ready to take the key role in leading a large scale new initiative with enterprise level impact, and asked me for some coaching on how the task changes from […]
I was leading a Senior Leadership Team workshop for a publicly-traded firm recently when one of the participants became prematurely attached to a (very) specific project. I have seen this happen over and over in my work, and left unchallenged, it always leads to lost time, money and talent. There are two categories of leadership […]
This summer has provided me with the unique opportunity to literally pick up and move our household to a wonderful new location that will better serve my growing business and family. Being a strategist, I routinely help teams find new paths and take change journeys. Yet when we are the ones impacted by the event, […]
The theme of the 2016 SCPD conference was innovating at the speed of teams. Futurist Cecily Sommers keynoted and closed the session, providing great continuity to the other thought leaders and panelists. (You’ll find the full agenda here and here) I came away from the conference energized to help firms take on value creation with […]
I have been having some great conversations with senior growth leaders following my Three Essential Ingredients for a Successful Growth Program webinar. What continues to excite and surprise me, is that by making the task of growth project creation simpler and more specific, it is releasing energy and starting conversations. (If you haven’t had time […]
