LOW STRATEGY, LOW CULTURE Can a company start in the lower left quadrant? No. But companies can fall there and disappear. If you’re in the upper left quadrant (low strategy, high culture) or lower right (high strategy, low culture), your organization is exposed to unnecessary risk. You’re just a step away from low strategy, low […]
I worked with a successful healthcare client recently on using culture to enhance execution of strategy to optimize results. They had disagreement on 1. direction of the organization and 2. ownership – that had slowed the organization. What most leadership teams do is focus on thorny issues like these without first laying ground work to […]
It’s interesting, most of us don’t know WHO we are. Who incorporates 2 questions – WHAT & WHY. What we’re doing or performance is what we call the ‘mind’. Why we’re doing it or why we’re here is what we call the ‘heart’. When we know who we are, we know our IDENTITY. Finally, if […]
Get a Life. Do You Have One? My colleague, Alan Weiss wrote recently on allowing the trivial many things in our lives to get in the way of the vital ‘one thing’ we should be doing or our purpose. Our life is our purpose. Everything we do, including how we do it (attitude) should help […]
When we were children, we accepted what adults said as true until about age 8. Then, we started asking a powerful question – WHY? The answer to WHY is the process or science behind what we believe. For example, when someone asks us what we believe leadership is, everyone has an answer, but what’s behind […]
A Significant Leader Does WHAT They Do Because of WHO They Are You can’t achieve your purpose, in other words, your optimal results, without knowing WHO you are first. It’s interesting, most of us don’t know WHO we are. WHO incorporates 2 questions – WHAT & WHY. WHAT we’re doing or performance, is what I […]
Have you ever lost a key team member, a business opportunity or not been paid by a client? I call these moments – that create anger, hurt, and frustration ‘defining moments’. In other words, how we respond when things don’t go our way defines WHO we really are, and distinguishes us from our competition. In […]
I’m working with a healthcare organization in a high-stakes game. They’ve invested years of their lives in education, have worked long hours, own facilities, and have many, well-paid people. They’ve ‘made it’, but how they attract patients, get paid, and fit in the market is influx. If you’re this organization, and having a 1-day leadership […]
Here are some excerpts from a New York Times article by Tony Schwartz and my comments. Addiction is the relentless pull to an activity that interferes with daily life. By that definition, nearly everyone I know is addicted to the internet. It has replaced work itself as our most socially sanctioned addiction. HERE’S A SIMPLE […]
This is the quality growth process visual. The reason organizations fail to achieve quality growth is because they fail to capture who they are and capitalize on it. How do you do that? Moving backwards, from right to left, everyone wants quality growth and has a strategy to achieve it. Before strategy though comes culture. […]
