Leadership Boosts the Bottom Line

The Seventh Annual Hay Group Study finds leadership boosts the bottom line. Best companies outperform the S&P 500 almost 2x over 10 years.  The study was quite comprehensive and the key findings worth reading.  We will focus on a small subset in this post. According to the study, “The Best Companies for Leadership distinguish themselves by [...]

Who Is Your Biggest Competitor?

I am kicking off a series of blog posts talking about challenges I see in coaching successful leaders looking to “up their game”.  We use the Innovative Leadership Fieldbook as the foundation for much of our approach.  This first post talks about leaders who are too competitive within their small group. Our leader is being groomed for [...]

Is Your Leadership Creating or Destroying Value?

What Do Your Relationships Say About You?

Who to partner with is a critical decision. The pilots of these planes put their lives on the line based on the people they fly with.  While most of us do not face these consequences, our choices still have an impact. Chose poorly and you could invite serious damage to your reputation and your ability [...]

Leadership Lessons from the Susan G. Komen Foundation

This is a guest post by Dani Robbins, a Metcalf & Associates, Inc. Associate. As we all know by now, the Susan G. Komen Foundation Board of Directors adopted and then quickly revised (in response to fierce opposition) a policy that disallowed financial support to organizations that are under investigation, even politically motivated investigations, after [...]

Vision and Values – The Antidote to Burnout?

I have had a number of discussions with clients and colleagues lately that point to the profound risk people are facing of burnout and the cost we experience when this happens.  Many of our strongest leaders are saying they cannot maintain the pace and they are looking for other options that will allow them to [...]

5 Benefits of Investing Time in Innovative Leadership

I had lunch with a dear friend and executive yesterday talking about her sense of dread about getting out of bed in the morning and going to work.  She is a very upbeat person so this is a new experience for her.  She believed about 80% of her executive peers had similar dread on a [...]

TechColumbus Leadership Series – 2011 Year in Review

The TechColumbus Leadership Series is an exclusive invitation only event with 50-75 small and large company Founders, CEOs and Presidents.  It is an opportunity for the best and brightest of Columbus leadership to share ideas and discuss best practices. It is a more informal and conversational forum than other events with discussion designed to create [...]

What Is Your Personal Vision for 2012?

You may be thinking – who has time for a vision – my vision is to get through the day and get most of my tasks done.  Or, I was reading holiday letters from friends, how did they possibly find time to do all of that?  And yet, here we are at the beginning of [...]

Randy Wilcox – Culture of Customer Service Creates a Competitive Advantage

Randy Wilcox is a Principal in the firm of Long and Wilcox which is a central-Ohio based real estate development company, a partner in Wilcox Development which is a Chicago based real-estate development company, and the Founder and Owner of Quest Business Centers. He founded Quest Business Centers in 1998 and Quest is currently the [...]