In The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, three professors discuss the characteristics, values, attitudes and competencies of innovative entrepreneurs and provide suggestions on how individuals, teams, and organizations can learn the behaviors. The authors describe the behavioral aspects of innovative entrepreneurship as “the discovery of value versus the delivery of value.” [...]
I am one of those people who can hear or read a word or phrase and – even though I have read it/heard it a million times before – it jumps off the page or continues to resonate and I become fixated. Alignment or better yet, career alignment, is such a phrase. A couple of [...]
This past Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a program describing the plight of people who had been unemployed for one, two, three or four plus years. In the story – Trapped in Unemployment – Scott Pelley indicated that today, there are over 4 million Americans who have been out of work for more than a year. [...]
‘Staying on point’ – while acting on your carefully crafted Leadership Career Growth Strategy – sometimes requires that you take a step back. The step back could be voluntary: deciding to take a sabbatical; volunteering; fulfilling a public service or military service commitment; accepting a less complex (smaller) role; pursuing an Executive MBA (or the advanced degree [...]
I am currently coaching several leaders who wish to make major changes in their careers, for example: A former corporate Marketing VP wants to leverage his market insight, Big Brand product management, strategy and ‘category first’ expertise into building a different type of marketing consulting practice A senior executive decided to research and ‘try on’ [...]
An Executive Hire Case Study: She had an amazing, problem-free on-boarding into the new role and the company. From Day One, she was on a fast-track to be named as a lead candidate for the C-level succession pool. Excellent hire – right? Wrong! Here’s What Actually Happened: Shortly after she joined the company – the [...]
I write a lot of articles on the topics of effective leadership strategies and out-of-the-box career management and career transformation methods. I have written about the ‘how tos’ and the ‘whys’ but I have not addressed the ‘what”. So let’s go back to the beginning. What is strategy? In his book, Crafting Strategy, Dr. Bob [...]
A major portion of the executive coaching work I engage in with clients is around shepherding them through career transition. For the past few months, I have been observing an unusual trend in client needs. Even though the US is in the middle of a recession economy, a large percentage of my clients are voluntarily [...]
Happy New Year! At the start of a new year, we all have the best of intentions: To work on our physical body (to lose weight or to start exercising), To work on our personal/interpersonal life (to be more patient with our spouse or boss) and/or To work on our professional life (to take a [...]
In a recent interview Mike Myatt, author of Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Guide commented: “No matter who you are – you don’t know everything, and the more successful you are, the greater the risks associated with blind spots and knowledge gaps. Continued growth and development are a leader’s greatest competitive advantage – those who fail [...]
