Seth Kahan, Author at Seth Kahan’s Visionary Leadership

Highly recommend for Leadership Development: Team of Teams

Seth Kahan on Big Change / June 1, 2017

General Stanley McChrystal’s book, Team of Teams, remains one of the best books on how to transform your organization so it shifts the focus from efficiency (which remains important but not primary) to adapting to complexity and continuous change. Stories are riveting. Lessons are clearly detailed. Addresses issues that include communication, trust, moving from silos […]

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4 Timelines for Leading Change

Seth Kahan on Big Change / June 1, 2017

When I work with CEOs I use these deceptively simple 4 timelines to map what success looks like.

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Honor the Valor and Spirit of the Fallen

Monday Morning Mojo / May 29, 2017

Many in my family served in the armed forces and the intelligence community. While I prefer other solutions to our greatest challenges I recognize there are times when nothing less than a military response is required. I am grateful and beholden to those who step in harm’s way, on our soil or overseas, to ensure

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Facilitation: Your Key to Greater Impact

Seth Kahan on Big Change / May 25, 2017

I am always impressed when one of my CEO clients is a facilitation buff. The results they create are consistently great because they know the how of getting people to work together. I put together a primer on facilitation recently. If you would like a free copy, drop me a line and let me know:

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Scott Wintrip: The Competitive Advantage of Hiring Top Talent

Seth Kahan on Big Change / May 25, 2017

A short interview with Scott Wintrip, author of recently released HighVelocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant, and his manifesto: The Competitive Advantage of a Talent Rich Organization – get your copy here. Reach Scott at Scott@ScottWintrip.com Reach me at Seth@VisionaryLeadership.com

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Fear

Monday Morning Mojo / May 22, 2017

Fear is probably the chief inhibitor of great performance. It shows up in many ways for a wide variety of reasons. There are two important things to know about fear: (1) It can be an appropriate response to a threatening environment, and (2) It narrows your options, focuses your actions and inhibits both possibilities and

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At the Core

Monday Morning Mojo / May 22, 2017

What is most important to you? If you don’t know what you want, someone else will be happy to figure it out for you! My reflections have recently brought me across the work of George Lakoff, an unabashedly progressive cognitive linguist who studies “frame,” sets of inter-related ideas, values and words that literally inhabit our

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Introducing New Ideas and Getting Them to Stick using Frames

Seth Kahan on Big Change / May 18, 2017

Have you ever had difficulty getting new ideas to stick? Try using frames. In this short video I give an example of how.

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Roots

Monday Morning Mojo / May 15, 2017

I grew up in the 60s. From 1960 to 1969 I was 0 to 10. During that time my dad, Bob Kahan, was a young university professor. All of the unrest that was taking place on college campuses and the hippy culture surrounded me. Psychedelic art was everywhere. I remember going to events where people

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