When I wrote my business bestseller, Getting Change Right, I did not anticipate that the section on dealing with difficult people would be the most popular. Here I talk about what it takes to decide whether or not someone who is antagonistic toward your change program is worth the time and energy to try and […]
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I’m hosting a great event for CEOs on October 23rd from 3-5 pm at the National Association of Manufacturers. I’ll be joined by Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers and Susan Neely, CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers. We will take a deep dive into how association CEOs impact the
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Every leader wants their vision to spread. Visionary leaders want to go beyond the transactional sharing of information and look for ways to engage the group, making them feel they have a shared stake in the future. In my talks with visionary CEOs, I’ve discovered that the two most challenging activities, once they have a
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I worked with the World Bank, Center for Narrative Studies, and the Center for Association Leadership on the problem of accelerating rapport during professional gatherings. Most conferences don’t begin to gel until about the middle of the second day; too late for some attendees. Our group wanted to know if that process could be improved
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I’m hosting a great event for CEOs on October 23rd from 3-5 pm at the National Association of Manufacturers. I’ll be joined by Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers and Susan Neely, CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers. We will take a deep dive into how association CEOs impact the
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There are three flavors of value innovation, more value, better value, and new value. New value is often borne from frustration, new insight, or technology advances and requires you to venture into a whole new area of business and skillsets. More value is quantitative; it’s all about the numbers. Better value is about increasing the
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I’ve been re-reading a classic, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn. It explains how paradigms change. It’s easy to imagine that science is the slow, steady linear progression that gradually fleshes out our understanding of the world. But science is much more haphazard. What is most fascinating to me is that often, the
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The best leaders are constantly transforming themselves and building new capabilities; trying things that have never been done before. In this video, I share three steps to increase your capability as a leader. Identify the capability that you want. Find a leader who’s already built that capability and is an expert. Go beyond email or
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I often work with leaders to design their own disruptions to introduce into the marketplace. This video explains two criteria that indicate a market is ripe for disruption – fragmentation and high margins. Remember when you could buy a cable subscription and watch everything? Those days are gone and now people are buying from many
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This video is about Obstacle Judo. We all know people who focus on the obstacle when presented with a challenge. Successful leaders see the opportunity embedded in and obstacle and leverage it; this is called Obstacle Judo. I give a few examples of how Obstacle Judo works. I’ve also created an exercise that will
