Wow. What a week. I got to come alongside leaders and partners across multiple industries, service organizations, and educational institutions. We talked about how they are holding up, as well as how they can show up for their firms, families, and communities. We talked about how to approach the practical problems they are facing: How […]
Well, that was a good run. The Bull Market celebrated its 10th anniversary on March 9, 2019. It didn’t make it to year 11 – in fact, the market was already on its way down on March 9, 2020. There is hope. We will rebuild and improve our businesses and economy – leaning into the […]
With little warning, the current pandemic has thrust many of us into the world of virtual work with almost no time to adjust. The outcome is that we’ve taken the processes we used in our face-to-face lives and directly mapped them to our dens and bedrooms. I’ve been on the phone and in the messenger […]
Being a leader in times of crisis can feel completely chaotic and interruption driven. Meetings become nearly continuous and the constant streams of unstructured information are mentally exhausting to parse through. Even when you take some “downtime,” your mind is still whirring to integrate new information in the background. The most empowering thing you can […]
We are dealing with some stuff right now – a truly global pandemic – in the era of global interdependence. We’d like to believe that as humans we are super adaptable and ready for anything. But the truth is, history shows that our selective attention can take us the wrong way (for an example, […]
As this article is being written, we are heading into a major public health disruption around the COVID-19 virus. At this point, leaders around the globe are working out their responses, and it is very clear that there will not be a business on the planet that does not have clients that will feel the […]
“You’ve seen some stuff!” a client exclaimed as we were unpacking a challenging problem they were facing. This triggered a montage in my head of the dozens and dozens of ideas that I’ve had the privilege to work up over the years with great colleagues. Each of them passed muster with us finding evidence of […]
I was talking with a senior-level R&D executive recently, and this topic came up: How can two projects – both of which are important and highly likely to create great value for both the firm and the client – have two such different paths? We talked about how one leader can guide a project that […]
I’m currently helping a number of very talented R&D leaders in a variety of contexts. What they have in common, is that across the board, they are dealing with significant growth and change at all levels including technical, organizational and process. Specifically, this change has led to challenges including how to scale, how to […]
It’s a phrase I heard just last week, “we may have the same badge, but we are not on the same team.” When you hear something like that, it’s highly likely you have just discovered that unseen boundary in the firm called a “silo.” And in the fast-moving agile era, silos are way too costly. […]
