High Performance & Innovation Coach
I’m going to share what I’ve learned about creating a digital culture, based on what I’ve seen from companies around the world. You can think of culture as the shared values, attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that characterize and guide a company. My favorite explanation of culture is from The First 90 Days, where the author …
How do you get past deadlocks in a meeting? You know the ones, where everybody is arguing their point, talking past each other, violently agreeing (though they don’t know it), and things heat up fast, and no decisions or progress get made. Fear not, young corporate warrior—there is a tried and true practice for dealing …
One of the things I do, as a patterns and practices kind of guy, is research and share success patterns. One of my more interesting bodies of work is my set of patterns and practices for successful executive thinking. A while back, I interviewed several Microsoft executives to get their take on how to think …
Your company’s operating model is the level of business process integration and business process standardization across business units for delivering goods and services. The operating model is one of the three keys to building a strong foundation for execution (The three keys are: operating model, enterprise architecture, and IT engagement model.) The key benefits for …
One of my mentees was looking for ways to grow her prowess in “Inspiring a Vision.” Here are a few ways I learned to help inspire a vision to help others see it more vividly: Draw your vision – make it a simple picture (draw it on a whiteboard or a piece of paper) Use …
