Is there someone close to you that you would like to have a heart-to-heart with? This last weekend, over the American Thanksgiving holiday, I had several remarkable conversations with family members who were visiting. These are people I have known a long time, close family. But, we don’t see each other face-to-face more than twice […]
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Almost all successful change depends on support, buy-in and engagement. Here I explain what they are and why they are so important.
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Which is more important to get right, content or process? Is it better to do the right thing or do things right? Well, there are plenty of times where one or the other is most important, but in the vast majority of cases you have to get both right or you will suffer. This weekend
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Please listen and comment below the video. Partisan posts will be deleted. Please let me hear your thoughts on how best to prepare for the Trump administration. -Seth
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It’s not enough to have a great strategy. You have to have great execution, too. And the secret to dynamite execution is turning your strategy into a social movement. Here I explain what that means and a little about how to do it.
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After I leased my first BMW I decided I wanted to find a way to improve my driving, but not the basics. This was about 7 years ago so I was around fifty. Just after I got my car I received a post card asking if I would like to test drive a BMW against
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I have found that by listening to detractors I can learn a great deal about how to succeed in a change initiative. Not only that but listening usually diffuses 90% of the resisters I engage with. Here are the five gems I get from those who resist change.
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I love some of the methodologies out there for achieving organizational goals, and I enjoy reading when an author has a different angle on the best ways to set and pursue them. I also love personal goal setting and at any one time I have a set of my own that I am working on.
Your Most Valuable Players are the people who will help you most with your change initiative. Here I talk about who you can energize, activate and equip them to be their best on your behalf.
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In the photo you see some of the current participants in my Visionary Leadership Academy standing in front of the Albert Einstein memorial in downtown DC. Last week we went on a sojourn to visit Albert along with Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr – all visionaries ahead of their time. We
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