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You are the Product: How Unlearning Can Keep You Relevant

New Years, birthdays, and other significant milestones are often a time to make big changes—lose the weight, create better work-life...
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Putting People Back Into Performance Management

The way most companies approach performance management is completely broken. Everybody knows it, yet there aren’t many companies or managers...
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Why Your Company Isn’t Profiting From Remote Productivity

The businesses that have accelerated during the COVID crisis—and will continue to succeed—aren’t thinking and talking about productivity. They’re focused...
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Good To Great Decisions

Having advised many leaders of large organizations over the years, I’ve realized that one of the most critical skills of...
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Spin The Business Agility Flywheel To Transform Your Company

For most businesses, Agile transformations have been disappointing, if not disastrous, with 96% failing to generate the capability to adapt...
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Failure—Is It A Matter Of When?

I’ve been watching the outstanding HBO series Chernobyl which details the worst nuclear reactor meltdown in human history—an event that...
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Your Mission Is To Produce Outcomes, Not Outputs

Most companies are looking for outcomes, unfortunately the majority of what they get is output. Everyone from executives to entrepreneurs...
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When Your Startup Can’t Stop Disrupting Itself

Again and again, we hear company founders complain in utter frustration that the larger they grow, the less they accomplish....
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Can Organizations Learn?

It was a pleasure to join @TechVillagePod podcast hosts Lauren (@malhoit) and Yadin (@porterdeleon) to debate the question; Can Organizations Learn? We...
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Leading Culture Change Means Changing Yourself Before Others

Leaders today are inundated with reasons to transform their organizations in search of better outcomes. New market entrants erode profit,...
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Think BIG, Learn fast, Start now!

Your competitors have the freedom to see the world differently because they’re programmed to THINK BIG,  Learn Fast, Start Now! They...
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Lean PMO: Managing The Innovation Portfolio

One of the first exercises I run with executive teams is mapping their business portfolio to visualize current work in...
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Lean PMO: Explore vs Exploit

The challenge for organizations today is growing the capability to continually adapt, adjust and innovate in the face of uncertainty....
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