We are spiritual beings (heart/y-axis, see below) having a human experience (mind/x-axis)… We have to be both to achieve excellence. If you want to achieve excellence and reach the upper right quadrant, you can’t do it without God. You can reach higher with God than without. I’m not prescribing ‘how’ to achieve excellence here, I’m […]
When I think of Christmas ornaments, I think of a tree adorned with ornaments – the tree is improved. When I think of virtues, I think of high integrity or character adorned with virtues (prudence, courage, temperance, justice, etc…) – your integrity or character is improved. Virtues are habits you practice to improve your integrity […]
If you want something to improve, you have to do something to improve it. I have a friend who wanted to improve his relationship with his wife. You know what he did? He started taking his wife on a date every Monday night. They haven’t missed a date night in 14 years and they have […]
This is the Business Leadership Excellence 2×2. If we take the mind, which is the WHAT on the x-axis and the heart, which is the WHY on the y-axis, we’re able to create a quad chart. We want to get to the upper right quadrant which is high mind – we know WHAT we’re doing […]
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 […]
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. […]
Here’s a business development question: How many of your clients would answer the phone if you called them after 9pm? When I do business development work with clients to increase the number of their clients that would answer their phone after 9pm, the focus is on attraction – sharing lessons learned, and creating connection and […]
Last week I was in a meeting with a healthcare client. He had been asked by his CEO to create a plan to add 5,000 sqft of new facility space in order to solve a problem. My client did what was IMPRESSIVE – he started by THINKING ABOVE THE LINE. He looked at the problem, […]
If you don’t have your team’s hearts or minds you won’t achieve results. (Sears?) If you only have their hearts, you will achieve reckless results, which is unpredictable. (RadioShack?) If you only have their minds, you will achieve spiritless results, which means you get the minimum from your team. (N. Korea?) If you have both […]
This Harvard Business Review article is an example of a niche consulting firm creating collaboration between donors and nonprofit organizations. https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/4006366-6018753669376339971?trk=groups-post-b-title It is a metaphor for helping subject experts on collaboration and healthcare and commercial construction leadership buy-in to the idea of participating in a community to ask and answer questions and share knowledge. The experts […]
