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Strategy Isn’t A One Time Event

Too often I talk to leaders about strategy and I hear back some sort of answer that makes it seem like the discussion of strategy is a one time event that occurs when there is new leadership in an organization or once a year when it is time to talk to shareholders and stakeholders about […]

How Are You Measuring Your Success?

In working with organizations and their leaders, we always need to come up with measurements of success. Too often when I ask the question, “What will success look like?” I get blank stares or I get answers that are sort of esoteric and not quantifiable. These aren’t very helpful. When you are thinking about measuring […]

Defining A Quality Network

To have a high quality network, both personally and professionally, you need to have 3 qualities: * diversity * quality * quantity Without all 3, you aren’t doing you or your network any favors.

We Are All Project Managers….

If you look around the business news, you will see a lot of success and failure. And, what becomes apparent if you look closely enough, everything is built around projects. Which means that we are all project managers now…and that changes the calculus of how you should approach your job and your career.

The trend of CMO’s having their jobs tied to results…

Duh! Your job as a CMO is to generate revenue. Marketing is a strategic position that needs to help put money into the till. So, duh! If you are a CMO and aren’t comfortable being held accountable for money, maybe you have the wrong role.

Variety

The old saying goes something like “variety is the spice of life." This saying holds even more true when you are talking about your business and personal relationships. Living in DC, I see how silo’d that many people keep their lives. Working within a certain sector, hanging out with people from that are, and never […]

Process Improvement Isn’t…

One of the wheels of my expertise is process improvement…and because it is an easy thing to misunderstand, I am going to explain a bit about it here. Process improvement isn’t about strangling every last imperfection out of a process…oh no, just the opposite, it is about making sure that the essentials are in place […]