I’ve had three conversations in the last few weeks with the kind of people you wish you had on your team. These are individuals who have a good, solid track record of contribution and who are seen as leaders by their peers. In fact, you do have them on your team. They are bright, […]
The Growth Leadership model has allowed me to come alongside dozens of leaders in complex firms to provide both a framework and coaching that will allow them to break through significant product, technology and process issues. Whether it’s getting a CEO and operations leader to talk productively again, or working towards the birth of a […]
We were in the middle of a large-scale turnaround project. I had recently been selected to serve as operations director, and when we reviewed the full line P&L, it wasn’t pretty. Not only were we losing money, but the problems were numerous and multi-layered. They included things like legacy products that were losing money at […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve been having a great season of connecting with many clients and colleagues and it’s given me a great opportunity to think deeply about how to work with you and your teams so that you can take your results to the next level. A really important dialogue thread that has come up several ways is […]
We are all still in a bit of shock over the rapid decline in the market valuation of GE. As of this writing, the stock is hovering at 50 percent of its previous valuations, and a plan has begun to break the company into several pieces. Stock options are underwater and talented people are taking […]
Growth Leaders need to be the “meaning makers” in our firms – and the current best method of doing this is to create a narrative. Growth Leaders catalyze action by creating lucid pictures of the future in their organizations by stepping into complexity and creating clarity. They paint on three canvases: the now, the near […]
We have an interesting case study playing out right now: Ford Motor Company has had three recent waves of leadership changes that give evidence to the demands of leading a large mature firm into what has become a classic set of trade offs between optimizing the current business model and creating the next. For those […]
There is a fascinating property of water that while not well understood, provides a great organizational analogy for the role Growth Leaders play and where to find them. This unique property of water is the phase change it undergoes at freezing (zero degrees Celsius) and how it can be inhibited if the water is super […]
