Sunday, April 2, 2017

My Moto: Better Leaders, Better World

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A top LinkedIn executive tells how a parable CEO Jeff Weiner told him from the Dalai Lama changed his leadership style.  My motto is better leaders, better world. I enjoy writing about Presidents, CEOs, or team leaders and the positive impact of coaching and mentoring in politics, business, sports, or in every field. I see [...]

Sunday, December 18, 2016

GE – Leveraging the Era, The Spirit of the Times

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“When you’re the CEO and you look out the window in Boston, you realize you’re in the middle of an ecosystem that quite honestly, for a big company, it makes you afraid.” I am excited that GE, one of the most admired companies in the world, has chosen the downtown areas of Boston Harbor, the [...]

Monday, October 3, 2016

Do You Have an Intended Strategy or an Emergent Strategy?

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The vast majority of Intended Strategies will be replaced by an Emergent Strategy that no one ever anticipated. This year, almost every CEO will hold a strategic planning session to get to a plan for 2020. At the end of these sessions, most companies declare, “Voila, this is our strategy” … and usually it will [...]

Friday, September 30, 2016

Shimon Peres, “The Enemy Does Not Have Horns”

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I wanted to repost this short article that I originally posted on LinkedIn as a tribute to Shimon Peres.  I despise waking up in the morning looking at the New York Times cover page and finding out who died, which is like waking up into a bad dream. Besides that, the streams of obits about famous [...]

Monday, September 26, 2016

An Impossible Future is a Greater Goal That Connects Higher Purpose and High Performance

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It’s always good to think about an Impossible Future, whether in your first 100 days or beyond, because it is such a power vehicle for transforming an organization and achieving extraordinary and tangible business results. First of all, an Impossible Future is the derivative of leadership that is authentic and passionate. An Impossible Future [...]

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

To Differentiate Your Company, Keep It Real, Very Real

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Knowing yourself, passionate entrepreneurship, personal branding, word of mouth have all been key to every successful business in history. As Andre Gide once said, “The more things change the more they stay the same.” Social networking has changed the game by giving entrepreneurs a reason to get rid of the worn-out, burnt-out, expensive advertising [...]