I am very fortunate to coach so many wonderful executive teams. Some of those team members move on because the company isn’t right or they’re in the wrong role. Usually these departures are because the company outgrew the team member or the team member outgrew the company. It doesn’t really matter what reason they leave, […]

So you’ve heard others suggest spending more time thinking about your business than working in your business, but how do you do it? Here are three quick ideas. The First Idea…Begin With The End In Mind As Steven Covey tells us in the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, “Begin with the end in mind […]

A common method of reporting project status is to use the familiar traffic light system, with a status of green, yellow and red. This method of reporting, in theory, makes it easy to determine whether a project is on track and allows the reader to glance quickly at a status report and determine whether there […]

What leaders do is always more impactful than what they say, specifically when it comes to sharing feedback. Executive teams should trust everyone on the team, leaders included. However, evidence shows that most managers are afraid or tend to ignore the feedback, specifically feedback they don’t like, which creates