by Marisa Paterson | Jan 30, 2023 | Coaching, Leadership, Leadershipdevelopment
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...
by Marisa Paterson | Jan 14, 2021 | Leadership, Leadershipdevelopment, Strategic Leadership
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...
by Marisa Paterson | Jul 30, 2020 | Leadership
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...
by Marisa Paterson | May 14, 2020 | Leadership
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...
by Marisa Paterson | Apr 14, 2020 | Leadership
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...
by Marisa Paterson | May 14, 2018 | Leadership
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...
