Jul 1, 2013 | Organizational Leadership
What do great organizations have in common? Leaders who are able to clearly define the best course of action and make correct, timely decisions toward that course. The best organizations rarely experience significant drift; that is one of the things that makes them...
May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Many leaders are amazing abstract thinkers. It is what makes them visionaries. It is what makes them inspiring. But all good leaders have the ability to make the abstract into reality. To actually accomplish the vision. To me what sets the good leaders apart from the...
May 15, 2013 | Organizational Leadership
So what have we learned? Take Risks, But Mitigate Both the Up and the Downside It’s mildly impressive. 85% of Canadian start-ups make it to one year, so 15% don’t. Better to be in the 85%, but it is the majority. That being said, every year the survival...
May 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
In this post, when I refer to leader, I am referring to the CEO, or where the buck stops for the organization. Other leadership positions within an organization are important, but are still dependent on the leader and the degree to which he or she succeeds in these...
Apr 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is advice I give from my life of experience so far. I will add that it is a terribly difficult thing to do. Malcolm Galdwell famously wrote in his book, Outliers, that it takes a person 10,000 hours to get to expert status. Rudy Giuliani is famous for focusing on...
