Is Your Organization Innovative? Or Is It Just You? – Part 2
Innovation will never be birthed from a process. It must start with people. To create an innovative organization, you must create an ethos of innovation throughout the entire organization.
Is Your Organization Innovative? Or Is It Just You? – Part 1
We've all heard the story before. A nearly mythical leader (often the founder) creates a phenomenally innovative organization. Following a meteoric rise, they pass the baton on to the next generation of leaders. But then, one day, we wake up and realize the organization is barely a shadow of its former self. What happened?
The Founder’s Evolution
The demands of leadership are constantly changing. At the ground level, it can feel like you've been blindsided or entirely off the map altogether. But our evolution as leaders follows a predictable pattern. And if you know and understand that pattern, you'll excel as a leader with a fraction of the heartaches and headaches.
Becoming the High-Demand Coach
The secret to delivering extraordinary results (and making great money doing it) is not finding more clients, creating an online course, or keeping your current clients longer. It's so much simpler.
Are Your Leaders Ready to Be Executives?
Do you have executives or leaders? Unfortunately, many founders and CEOs make the tragic mistake of assuming achievement is the same as leadership. However, the primary function of an executive team is not achieving today's success but instead securing tomorrow's success.
Why Great Leaders Fail to Become Great Consultants
You got into coaching to be a coach. But if you find yourself spending more time coaxing prospects than you do coaching clients, it's not your fault. You have found yourself caught in what I call the Doom Loop. And every coach finds themselves here at some point, especially as we grow and succeed.
How to Make the Fun Stage Last for Your Business
For many business owners, Fun is as far as they would like to go. They earn more than ever have before, and they have the freedom to do what they love. Why would you want to give that up?
3 Nimble Hiring Principles That Are Guaranteed to save You Grief
I want to propose three principles and a simple yet powerful hiring model that will dramatically increase your hiring process’s effectiveness and reduce the time you spend hiring.
The Ultimate Guide to Holding an Incredible Executive Offsite – Day One
From day one, this step-by-step agenda will give you and your team an opportunity to reflect on past successes and challenges and cast a vision for the company so powerful and enduring that it will outlast everyone in the room.
The Ultimate Guide to Holding an Incredible Executive Offsite – Before the Meeting
Over the last ten years, I've learned more ways not to hold an executive offsite meeting than I'd like to admit. In this series, I've taken the lessons I've learned from each of those failures and put together the perfect offsite plan so you and your team can create the perfect strategy to grow your organization!
Leading by Question
As a founder, your leadership must evolve from being the one to effectively decide and do everything to creating a company that can effectively decide and do everything. One of the skills you must master along the way is leading by question.
The Invisible but Unstoppable Power of Humble Honesty
I want to share with you one of the most powerful principles I learned as a leader. Like many truths, there is no black and white, no simple fix, but there are timeless principles that can guide you through the challenges we all face working together with others.
The principle is this: Working together requires humility and honesty.