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Proactively Addressing Failures of Leadership

November 15, 2011

The following blog post was written by Dani Robbins, one of our associates. Dani Robbins is the founder and Principal of Non Profit Evolution, www.nonprofitevolution.com, a consulting firm providing board governance and operational assistance, including capacity building, to non-profit organizations. I have been thinking about failures of leadership as of late, and not just failures [...]

Walk Out Walk On – Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze

October 25, 2011

I attended a discussion this morning led by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze about their latest book about leaders who walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs Who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they [...]

Innovative Leadership to Navigate Uncertainty

October 4, 2011

Are your leadership actions impeding innovation?  Are your change initiatives successfully implemented and delivering the benefits you expected?  How is YOUR behavior impacting their ability to delivery results? Many traditional leaders spend more time perfecting their golf swings than they do improving their ability to lead in this current environment.  The most successful leaders continue [...]

Innovate Columbus – Innovation Forecast

May 6, 2011

I attended the Innovate-Columbus event recently and the speaker Bob Johansen, from Institute for the Future, struck me as particularly interesting.  He is a ten-year forecaster and author of Get There Early - Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present, and Leaders Make the Future – 10 New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World.  A [...]

Building Resilience in an Environment of Change – Stories

April 22, 2011

Today we have a guest post from Maria Polak, one of our associates and also faculty member at Otterbein University and Franklin University. Almost every day provides information on external changes to organizations and systems that can affect us in many ways.  Market demands in the private sector have already affected those organizations, with resilient [...]

End of Year – What Next?

December 11, 2010

As we approach the end of the year and you do your end of year analysis, look at the balanced scorecards, look at the trends for performance of various sorts – how did you do?  Did you meet your goals?  Exceed your goals?  Were your goals even relevant at the end of the year or [...]

Carlos Brito from World Business Forum 2010 The Power of “Dream, People, Culture”

October 5, 2010

Carlos Brito talked to the World Business Forum about – Building a Performance Culture.   Better than you: How to Building a Cohesive Team of High Achievers.  Carlos is the CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. During 5 mergers and acquisitions we continually asked: why is it that our performance is better than these other companies.  We found [...]

Setting a Vision For Your Company’s Future

March 25, 2010

This blog post is the first in a series of posts that explores my work with MT Business Technologies during our second year of work.  To learn more about the first year, please read the article published in Integral Leadership Review in January 2010. I met the client at a leadership workshop on developing transformational [...]

Leading in Uncharted Territory – New Rule #10 – Keep an attitude of experimentation

December 29, 2009

We do not have “right answers” we have hypotheses to be tested and refined. In our exploration of Leading in Uncharted Territory, rule 10 is: Keep an attitude of experimentation – we do not have “right answers” we have hypotheses to be tested and refined. As we think about our current environment where the old [...]

Leading in Uncharted Territory – Rule #9 – Measure, Learn and Refine

September 2, 2009

In our exploration of Leading in Uncharted Territory, rule 9 is: Measure results, learn and refine approaches (also called dynamic steering). As we think about our current environment, good measurement systems and processes are critical. We find our environment changing on a regular basis and one of the most valuable elements of success is awareness [...]

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