“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Maybe accounting and legal for lunch. I’ve never actually heard anyone try and complete that quote. And I’ve never really figured out why any leader would want strategy masticated by […]
Welcome to leadership. Welcome to your newly appointed position as the team leader. Or, if you’ve been in leadership for a while, welcome the realization that we are always growing and learning as leaders and […]
The single best way to grow as a leader is to lead and then get feedback. It is to act and interact with your team and learn what can be improved upon through feedback. Feedback […]
By most accounts, Paul O’Neill’s first speech as the new CEO of Alcoa was a complete failure. The speech was given in a hotel ballroom not far from Wall Street, and it was meant for […]
The idea of purpose in organizations has been around for a while now. But the number of folks who believe they truly work for a purpose-driven organization hasn’t increased all that much. One of the […]
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city known throughout the world for two things: Throwing snowballs at Santa Claus, and Its embrace of underdogs. The Ultimate Underdog Story When you think about Philadelphians, you […]