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Leadership Alternatives

Leadership is a topic that always should be in season…and lately it seems that people are focusing on things like integrity, honesty, and adaptability. Here are a few ways that I think maybe don’t get highlighted often enough that can make you a successful leader… * Admit your mistakes * Allow Input * Be present […]

3 Keys to Better Managing Change

Change occurs no matter what happens… I am always reminded of the old Miami Heat commercial when Pat Riley first became coach that said something along the line of “Change: the only thing is life that is certain is change and when it rears its beautiful face, you embrace it." That being said, here are […]

Don’t Confuse Tactics With Strategy

Too often we hear the word “strategy” thrown around in the wrong context. Here is a simple way of thinking of strategy and tactics. Strategy is where you want to go. Tactic is how you get there. So when you see a blog post that tells you “Here are 5 strategies for getting X number […]

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 […]

BBAB #1: Take More Risks…

BBAB stands for Being Better At Business. (I’ll remind you again…don’t worry.) At the time I am writing this, we have become a nation that is risk averse. Even as we see higher rates of people that want to call themselves entrepreneurs and we understand that innovation and risk go hand in hand. The first […]

Revenue Generation: Like Grabbing Cash From A Money Tree?

When you talk about revenue, you are often put in the position of making money grow on trees! Which isn’t actually true because in fact, most of changing and growing the revenue machinery of your organization is a process, just like any other process. Like any good process, there is just a series of patterns […]

Rethinking the Role of the CIO

I read this article in Strategy + Business about the cycle of CIO turnover in large corporations. The article is well reasoned and the points are all relevant. But the challenge comes down to leadership. The article says that there is a large percentage of CIOs that report to the CFO or someone else…but don’t […]