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New Whitepaper – The How to of Vertical Development, Part 2
Right this paper is finally out! It took a long time because I wanted to get input from as many people around the world as possible. Over the past three months, I interviewed 30 experts from China,...
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Lessons from Harvard vs M.I.T.
About five years ago I was invited to a learning event with 30 other leadership professionals to hear two of the world’s greatest organizational researchers speak. One speaker, a guru from Harvard,...
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Why I Have Stopped Setting Goals
About six month ago I read an interview with Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, in which he said that he had learnt that setting goals was a miserable waste of time: “To put it bluntly, goals are...
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The Moneyball of Leadership Development
The best leadership movie of the last decade has got to be Moneyball. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane the real life GM of the Oakland A’s baseball team. In short, they suck. Not because they aren’t...
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The Big 3 of Leadership Development
The top 3 leadership challenges as rated by 300 leaders from the C-Suite, Senior Executive and Mid-Level. Warren Buffett tells a story about the first time he and Bill Gates met (in other words when...
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Leadership Development – On an Index Card
There is a theory in the field of innovation that the greatest breakthroughs come not from freedom, but from constraints. When you are constrained you are forced to think in irregular ways about your...
View ArticleThe No. 1 Myth About Building Teams
Four years ago I went to a lecture that shattered everything I thought I knew about teams. In the lecture Richard Hackman, who was probably the top teams researcher who ever lived, told a story about...
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Come Visit the New Website
– In truth there was nothing wrong with the old website, but as my old boss correctly pointed out (just before I quit working for him) I like change. With this in mind I’ve redesigned the site to make...
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What Every Leader Ought to Know About Stress – On an Index Card
————————————————————————————————————————– I’ve never seen as much stress as I am seeing right now in the work place. Most people are putting on a good front but when you scratch the surface you find...
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The No. 1 Predictor of Career Success…….On An Index Card
Three months ago I challenged my buddy Phil Willburn to put everything he had learned in the last 10 years about Networks (What they are, Why they matter and What great ones looks like) onto one index...
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Partner with us on a Cutting Edge CCL Research Project
We are looking for organizations who want to learn what leads to successful change in their organization i.e. What is their ‘change equation’. Why: Research tells us that 70% of all change efforts...
View ArticleHow Silicon Valley Companies Accelerate Leadership Development
Four years ago, I wrote a research paper called “Future Trends in Leadership Development.” The paper became popular in various circles and I received good feedback from all groups except one. My...
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What I learned in the last 12 months
What an 18 months it has been. Two twin boys to add to two young boys, a new city (Austin – awesome) and a couple of hurricanes (well that’s the twins again). Now let me tell you about my work and what...
View ArticleA Science Based Approach to Developing Leaders
In the last post I promised that I would share with you the most important things I learned in the last 18 months. Where to begin? How about in Florida (it’s cold everywhere else!) at the office of...
View ArticleAccelerating the Leadership Pipeline
How can an organization accelerate its leadership pipeline? In the Oil and Gas sector we see a generation of leaders about to retire and take all of their knowledge with them. Who will fill their...
View ArticleHow to Cascade Resilience
One question organizational leaders often ask us is how they can efficiently cascade the best resilience methods out to people on the front lines. For example, one company we worked with was facing...
View ArticleWhat Is Vertical Leadership Development?
This week I want to introduce you to an idea that has obsessed me for the last 5 years – Vertical Development. One of the reasons that many leadership programs don’t work is that they don’t...
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Launching the Vertical Leadership Incubator
On June 6 & 7 we are launching our new Vertical Leadership Incubator to help practitioners learn how to design & deliver Vertical Leadership programs (learn more about vertical development...
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7 Lessons from the Vertical Incubator
Last week we ran the first Vertical Leadership Incubator in Austin. It was a big success (we thought!). Carl Sanders-Edwards and I created the Incubator for practitioners who...
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Aug. 2 – Webinar: What is Vertical Leadership Development
Join me for a webinar about the emerging field of Vertical Leadership Development on August 2, 12pm Central Time. While Horizontal development focuses more on skills and competencies, Vertical...
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