How does an effective leader or manager address the issue of retention? What strategies can be employed to minimize the impact to the organization when a high performer decides to leave? Better yet how can we help them not leave in the first place? How do we address the potential dichotomy between retention and performance […]

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Its late morning Friday and you are in the zone working through just how to get the organization on board with your latest improvement project. Just then your top performer shows up at your door. She jars you out of the zone and as you scramble to collect your senses to talk to her. […]

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Nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished without determination, or without courage.  Today, the determination and courage to build business, personal and inter-personal leadership is not important it is critical.  Engaging this determination, actualizing this determination requires a bit of pixie dust.  Pixie dust born of hope, pixie dust born of that intangible but critical desire to […]

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The commitment to action-ability.  Creating architecture of action-ability.  The greatest thoughts, best laid plans or strategies are useless until they are made action-able.  Developing action-ability at the front lines of a business, economic, personal or inter-personal battle demands Q3 power, and leadership is not leadership without action-ability.  The greatest ideas, the best strategies, the most […]

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The commitment to integrity.  Creating architecture of trust.  Nothing is built and sustained without trust.  Leadership of self, leadership of others starts with the inspiration to lead rather than follow the Q3 strength (intellectual, emotional and spiritual capital to sustain leadership) and the spiritual capital to live and lead with the integrity that drives and […]

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The commitment to courage:  Creating architecture of hope.  Developing an outlook that drives and sustains courage at the front lines, courage in the face of challenges and ignites the hope, the faith that drives our greatest thoughts and actions.  The hope and faith that inspires our self and others.  Commitment to courage that cannot be […]

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The commitment to communicating the vision:  Creating architecture of meaning that is conveyed not only by words but by actions, by the determination the passion the leader has for the vision and by his/her ability to communicate this vision.  Developing the high emotional intelligence that drives masterful communication is critical.  Articulating and living the values […]

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The commitment to purpose and vision: Creating a moral architecture, common purpose, a goal that speaks to something meaningful, purposeful that will engage others and is the common ground, the common goal that will be shared and cherished. The moral architecture, the vision keeps organizations competitive because it is only through creating and sustaining […]

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The commitment to the empowerment of self and others:  Creating a social or human architecture that will gather the commitment of others who want to lead collaboratively, because leadership and success today are achieved through servant or collaborative leadership.  The era of command and control leadership is dying its last death.  We need leaders […]

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A while back on the Cranky Middle Manager Podcast (I do recommend this by the way Wayne interviews the people leaders like to listen to and learn from) I discovered a guy named Wally Bock. Wally has a weekly newletter that regularly impresses me. He brings up points that are practical, wise and applicable to […]

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