Blog Archive
Defining & Developing Your Team
As a leader, knowing where you are going and sharing this with your team is critical to your success. This process provides focus, sets priorities, and saves time and energy as you measure all the actions of the organization against the vision you share.
Owning Your Strength
Recently I had the privilege of spending the morning with a group amazing young leaders at WAM House. These young people spend a year intentionally honing their leadership skills as they step into the marketplace.
Knowing Your Own Value, 3 Lessons in Authenticity
This month, we are focusing on lessons from my favorite children’s books. Today’s book is one I saw for the first time when our oldest granddaughter was born.
Agility, Brain Science, and Margin
Agility, the capability of rapidly and efficiently adapting to changes, is at the intersection of the Market – what customers need that we provide, the Work – providing it to them, and the Worker – that’s us. In today’s marketplace, we’re bound for obsolescence if we’re not agile and moving constantly to that intersection of Market, Work and Workers.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, 4 Lessons in Transformation
This month, we are focusing on lessons from my favorite children’s books. Today’s book is Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton.
Believing, 3 Lessons from The Little Engine that Could
This month, we are focusing on lessons from my favorite children’s books. My absolute favorite children’s book is The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper.
What Can You Do With An Idea?
Our first book is a Christmas gift I received from my coach, Kim Avery. Inside the package was this book, What Can You Do with an Idea?, by Kobi Yamada.
Bringing the Golden Circle to Life
“People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.”
HOW, Connecting Your WHY to the Marketplace
Once the WHY of an organization has been identified, it has to be translated to the marketplace. A WHY without a tangible expression is just a dream.
Knowing Your WHY, the Clarity for Authentic Success
Why is the purpose, a cause or a belief that underlies your organization’s existence. It provides a clear answer to each of these three questions:
Why do you get out of bed in the morning?
Why does your organization exist?
Why should anyone care?