Culture is created by individuals, not organizations. It doesn’t exist “out there”; it’s how each employee shows up and how they create an environment for others to show up.
Seven Steps toward a Stronger Culture with Financial Benefits
Clean up Your Marketing Mess
Find the profits you’ve been missing. Good marketing maintenance can increase revenues by 20 percent or higher while decreasing the cost of sales. Here are some of the areas in your marketing regimen that tend to get “messy” over time.
Mind the Gap
“Mind the Gap” can mean a lot of things. But Success Authorities, “Mind the Gap” represents what is missing between where we expect business performance to be and where it is currently.
The 7 Signs You Have Poor Leadership
Poor leadership shows up in numerous ways and has a huge negative impact on the business. Understanding the traits of poor leaders can help you avoid leadership pitfalls.
Culture Clash: Why M&As Often Fail
Perhaps no other business endeavor has a more abysmal success rate that Mergers and Acquisitions. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Cultural awareness can minimize the danger of failure.
Culture: The Bedrock of Competitive Immunity
Culture is created by individuals, not organizations. It doesn’t exist “out there”; it’s how each employee shows up and how they create an environment for others to show up.
Roadblocks to Competitive Immunity
With courage and commitment, you can remove roadblocks and clear a path toward Competitive Immunity.
Self-Awareness: The Foundation of Effective Leadership
Self-aware leaders create a culture that attracts people, inspires people to contribute in meaningful ways and keep those people.
Velocity and Competitive Immunity
There are compelling reasons for an organization to practice Velocity, especially if the goal is to achieve Competitive Immunity.
Unique Value and Competitive Immunity
Creating Unique Value can be a challenge, but it is essential to achieving Competitive Immunity and the long-term, high reward Customer relationships that go with it.
What is Competitive Immunity and Why Should I Care?
Companies seeking Competitive Immunity make products that people want to buy. Leaders today need to be focusing on how they can achieve Competitive Immunity.
Trust and Competitive Immunity
At the heart of Competitive Immunity lies Trust. Think about those organizations you trust. Consider why you trust them. The same is true for leaders…What is it about them that engenders your trust?
Seven Pathways to Team Engagement and Cohesion
The revolving door of employees negatively impacts morale, productivity, and the ability to provide quality service for customers. Here are seven ways that leaders can do something about it.
Don’t Settle for Competitive Advantage: Aspire to Competitive Immunity
People create Competitive Immunity, which is why it’s more sustainable than competitive advantage.
Uncovering the Real Culture that Rules Your Business
Culture is especially crucial in Permanent White Water
Change Leadership Starts with You
When leaders talk about big change but nothing about them looks or seems different, employees find it hard to believe and support. To employees it smacks of lip service.
Are You Managing or Leading?
You manage when you need things to happen in a well-defined way. You lead when you need to make changes.
5 Destructive Habits
The lack of authenticity sucks the productivity, performance, morale, innovation, engagement, retention, and progress right out of a team or company. Here are five of the most destructive habits of off-purpose professionals…and how to change them.
Why Culture Matters
Very few business leaders are active and intentional when it comes to building and maintaining their culture. Yet, it’s crucial that any organization that seeks success requires a solid, effective culture in which everyone shares, maintains, and strengthens the 4 Cs.
Think Different, Be Bold and Swing a Big Hammer
“Are we being shackled by situations imposed on us? Are we echoing the dogma of a former era? Are we chasing defectors? Or are we preparing to break new ground?”
The Human Process for Moving through Change
A graphic example of the human change process from occurrence to acceptance.
The Living, Learning, Innovatively Adept Organization
As with any life-force, organizations are at their best when their systems are operating in harmony and health. Organizations have an underlying ecosystem which we focus on to improve our clients’ capacity for growth, innovation and evolution: A. Heart/Purpose:The heart of the company is its reason for being. Purpose is…