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From 90 days to 90 seconds – starting a new role in the Post-Pandemic World
The old adage of 90 days was seen as a standard for allowing leaders to find their feet before hitting the ground running. Pre-pandemic, the new leader connecting to a role and company came with an abundance of support. It was too expensive to have them fail and go...
How to Build your Strategic Leadership Capability
It sounds obvious — if you want to build organizational strategic leadership capability (SLC), simply hire and promote capable, strategic thinkers. Few would dispute that logic. Yet, the essence of what SLC truly represents is hard to define. Phrases like strategic...
Making Room For What Really Matters
Being cooped up at home for the past five months has created myriad emotions in many of us. Some positive, others not so. It has also led to a consciousness of what home means to us. Home is an important place where we create daily rituals, a metaphor for where we...
Be Brave @ Work Podcast
Be Brave @ Work Podcast Episode 33 Listen to episode 33 of Be Brave @ Work podcast with Ed Evarts this episode featuring Marisa Paterson, an Executive Coach and leadership specialist, chats about her definitions of bravery and shares her story about being braver in...
Leadership in the “New Normal”: 3 Ways to Enhance Connection
In ordinary times good leadership is the foundation of strong and healthy organizations, but what of leadership in a pandemic? What rises to the top in terms of qualities and behaviors that “separate the men from the boys”? Well, as it turns out it might just be...
Lead with empathy: 5 ways to boost your leadership in a crisis
Crisis can spawn great leaps in innovation, but it can also lead to fear, a scarcity mindset and self-preservation tendencies. Long before COVID-19 we knew that poor leadership could be toxic and have disastrous side effects. Never has this been brought into sharper...
Co-Creating Talent in the New World: Strategies for Leaders and CHROs
Learning to engage, empower and co-create with customers is the manta of the new economy. We talk about the need to create platforms not products and the 3C’s of customer satisfaction — Customization, Connection and Collaboration. This mindset is finding its way into...
7 Overlooked Ways Women Bolster Competitive Strategy
What if someone told you that your organization had an underutilized asset that could earn 21% increased profitability, and up to 45% greater market share? What would you guess that asset might be? Your IP? Your culture? Your technology? Is it your enviable customer...
Helping Leaders Thrive in the Fourth Revolution: May The Force be with you
The changes brought by Digital Disruption and Artificial Intelligence are accelerating in their magnitude and pace. It’s a whole new era. It’s no longer a Fourth Industrial Revolution; we are facing a new Intelligent Revolution. If there is one model of...
‘Tis the Season for AI Hype’
‘Tis the season of merriment— a time to welcome in the new and perhaps to over-imbibe a wee bit. I am not talking about the Holidays and their seasonal accouterments; I am referring to the AI hype that is gathering momentum like a snowball on a hill. Businesses...
5 Investment Strategies on Leadership Development for CHROs
Many businesses see digital transformation as a kind of technology ‘pot-luck’. However, a splash of machine learning and a dash of analytics will not ignite a digital transformation. Nor does digital transformation proceed even if the company has the right strategy....
7 Ways To Change Your Wash Cycle
Digital transformation is not about technology or about a disruptive business model; it is about a mindset-shift in leaders’ thinking. Yet being so caught up in platform envy and coveting customer networks, rarely do leaders attribute fault to their own...
Big data and the cat video
We have all done it. You start surfing the web for a key piece of information, and suddenly, overwhelmed, you find yourself watching a cat video. Access to information used to be a source of power for a leader. In today’s data-infused world, having power means knowing...