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Accelerating Leadership Development Using the ACE Model

Over the last three decades, I have taught over a thousand graduate students over the years and have coached more than a hundred clients....

Nonprofit Series

This 14-part podcast series covers the five tools found in the upcoming book, Nonprofit Leadership and Management: A Toolbox for Moving...

Coaching Series

Coaching is today’s “must have” tool for leaders and managers. In the Harvard Business Review article entitled, “The Leader as Coach,”...

Strategic Finance Series

This 7-part podcast series covers the five tools found in the book, Strategic Finance for Strategic Leaders, The First Five Tools. Each...

Strategic Leadership Series

You can listen to this 7-part series in less than an hour (CLICK HERE). Podcast Overview In this week’s episode, we will provide an...

Building Strategic Organizations Series

You can listen to this 7-part series in less than an hour (CLICK HERE) I still remember meeting with senior leaders of a $300m...

30. Coaching for Strategic Leaders-2: Connecting With Others Through Care and Compassion

You may have heard it said that people don’t care about what you know until they know how much you care. The starting point for a good...

29. Coaching Tools for Strategic Leaders-1: Why Coaching is the New "Must Have" Skill

Coaching is today’s “must have” tool for leaders and managers. In the Harvard Business Review article entitled, “The Leader as Coach,”...

Writing Everything at Least Twice

Oops! I didn’t mean to say that. Barrett wrote back to me asking about what I meant in an email I had sent time. I realized that I said...

Getting Strategic Traction: Use OKRs like Intel, Google, and the Gates Foundation.

Initiatives: Use your TEMP resources strategically to work less and accomplish more.

Most people think of ROI as a business term. However, return on investment is just as relevant to your personal life as your professional...

Jellyfish and Skeletons: The Organic/Organized Balance

"Grandpa, what's this?" my grandson asked as he stood on the beach with the waves lapping around his ankles. "It's a jellyfish." "Why is...

The One-Foot Fence

Many years ago, I worked as a staff assistant for a world-famous linguist. I remember that whenever someone asked him for something, he...

How Clay Christensen Changed My Life and Work

Clayton (Clay) Christensen passed away this past January 2020. Christensen achieved fame with his 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma, and,...

Do You Have the Skill and the Will to be a Strategic Leader?

When I wrote the book, Strategic Leaders Are Made, Not Born, my intent was to help tactical workers and leaders everywhere add new skills...