Better Insights, Better Results
“Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.” — Ryan Lilly How do you design an effective organization? How do you equip your group to achieve its goals? What are the key components of an organization that will help you be successful. In The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies …
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” — Winston Churchill A strategy defines what you will do and what you won’t. You don’t have to be a strategist to craft an effective strategy. But you can borrow the skills of effective strategists to craft better strategies. So, how do you craft …
How do you make more effective decisions? As a leader, how do you know whether to build consensus or to simply make the decision based on input? In The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, Michael Watkins writes about effective decision making using consult-and-decide and build-consensus techniques. Key Take …
“Influence may be the highest level of human skills.” – Unknown Part of putting your ideas in place, means knowing the influence map. You need to know your supporters and opponents as well as those that you can convince to join your efforts. How do you identify your supporters, opponents and convincibles? In The First …
What are the most important attributes of the people on your team? Which attributes can you influence or change versus which are relatively fixed? What is your threshold value for whether somebody should be on your team? In The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Michael Watkins writes …
