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When you have nothing to say, don’t say it. But, when you have something to say, you must say it. When you think your response might be taken the wrong way, it will. When you take care to respond effectively, your response might be taken the wrong way. When you have disagreement, there’s objective evidence […]

100% agreement means there’s less than 100% truth.  If, as a senior leader, you know there are differing opinions left unsaid, what would you do? Would you chastise the untruthful who are afraid to speak their minds? Would you simply ignore what you know to be true and play Angry Birds on your phone? Would […]

When you go to the cinema or the playhouse you go you see a show. The show may be funny, it may be sad, it may be thought-provoking, it may be beautiful, and it may take your mind off your problems for a couple of hours; but it’s not real.  Sure, the storyline is good, […]

Technical risk – Will it work? Market risk – Will they buy it? Emotional risk – Will people laugh at your crazy idea?   Technical risk – Test it in the lab. Market risk – Test it with the customer. Emotional risk – Try it with a friend.   Technical risk – Define the right […]

If you want new behavior, you must embrace conflict. If you can’t tolerate the conflict, you’ll do what you did last time. If your point of view angers half and empowers everyone else, you made a difference. If your point of view meets with 100% agreement, you wasted everyone’s time. If your role is to […]

Efficiency is a simple measurement – output divided by resources needed to achieve it. How much did you get done and how many people did you need to do it? What was the return on the investment? How much money did you make relative to how much you had to invest? We have efficiency measurements […]

What people think about you is none of your business. If you’re afraid to be wrong, you shouldn’t be setting direction. Think the better of people, as they’ll be better for it. When you find yourself striving, pull the emergency brake and figure out how to start thriving. If you want the credit, you don’t […]

  When it’s time to make meaningful change, there’s no time for consensus. When the worn path of success must be violated, use a small team. When it’s time for new thinking, create an unreasonable deadline, and get out of the way. The best people don’t want the credit, they want to be stretched just […]

When the fate of your company rests on a single project, who are the three people you’d tap to drag that pivotal project over the finish line? And to sharpen it further, ask yourself “Who do I want to lead the project that will save the company?” You now have a list of the three […]

If you want to do a task, but you don’t have what you need, that’s waiting for a support resource. If you need a tool, but you don’t have it, you wait for a tool. If you need someone to do the task, but you don’t have anyone, you wait for people. If you need […]

  What it takes to do new work.   Confidence to get it wrong and confidence to do it early and often. Purposeful misuse of worst practices in a way that makes them the right practices. Tolerance for not knowing what to do next and tolerance for those uncomfortable with that. Certainty that they’ll ask […]