Do you want to change the culture of your company? You may not want to and then again you may not have a choice. The question is, will you be a victim of the change or the manager of it?
Strategy vs Execution Part 3
“Leaders have three fundamental responsibilities: They craft a vision, they build alignment, and they champion execution.” Anonymous. In my experience what gets companies into difficulty is when they forgot the alignment question in their strategic planning, operational execution and problem solving.
Strategy vs Execution Part 2
“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves” Bobby Fischer. Strategy drives day-to-day execution or is the other way around? If you can’t execute the strategy what good is it? Revenues down, where is the problem?
Strategy vs Execution Part I
Irish storytellers have a saying that goes like this: “Dreamers are happy building castles in the sky; realists are happy collecting the rent.” Personally, I haven’t seen company Leaders spending a significant portion of their time on developing creative visions and strategies for their company, they are all about the rent.
Why Would I Want a Board of Directors
“It may be lonely at the top, but I don’t want to be second guessed all the time is why I don’t want a Board of Directors”. Being the Leader of a company in this day and age and running it by yourself is suicide. Find a partner, whether that is your spouse or a close confident and it’s just a lover’s leap. Same outcome.
Manager: What is their Job
Should a Manager be evaluated as a Coach, Counselor, or Worker Bee in today’s world? Like it or not Covid fast-forwarded us into a new work world. Dragged along were the ‘issues’ of the younger workforce, changing cultural norms, a growing labor shortage, and then the new hybrid work environment. What didn’t change was the […]