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Cesar Milan and Organizational Leadership
“I rehabilitate dogs; I train people.” -Cesar Milan I must admit that I am a great fan of the tv series, The Dog Whisperer. Actually, if truth be known, I am addicted. But then I am in good company...
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2011 Review: The Best of Parenting
I am in the midst of raising a second family (I have one daughter aged 35 and another aged 12) so I have some experience of getting it right and wrong over a period of nearly three decades. Not that I...
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The “Nocebo” Effect and Strategy Execution
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. ~Charles W. Eliot By now nearly everyone has heard of the “placebo” effect, particularly as it pertains to...
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Why Banks Should Focus on Culture Now More Than Ever!
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life,...
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Something’s “fishy” in big banks . . .
Everyone has heard the old saying: “A fish rots from the head first!” In the business world we have a similar expression: “Organisations are shadows of their leaders; that’s the good news and the bad...
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Corporate Culture is visible if you know what to look for . . .
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. -Steve Jobs Not too long ago a friend of mine asked how to tell a reputable plumber or tradesman from...
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Ballast, Balance and Healthy Cultures
Organizations are shadows of their leaders. . . that’s the good news and the bad news. Several years ago we took a short holiday trip to Stockholm. A fascinating mixture of old and new, great...
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In the beginning was the Word . . .
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. -Napoleon Hill There is much talk lately about corporate...
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Leadership Shadows and a Teachable Moment . . .
“Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who casts the biggest shadow of all?” ~apologies to Maleficent, the Wicked Queen in Snow White Several years ago I was invited to attend an end of year conference for one...
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Why Banks Should Focus on Culture, Now More Than Ever
Over the past several months government agencies and business leaders have begun an intense and very public debate about how to prevent another financial meltdown, and another bailout, now that the...
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It Ain’t All Leadership’s Fault
Someone once asked Slick Willie Sutton, the notorious bank robber, why he robbed banks. The question might have uncovered a tale of injustice and lifelong revenge. Maybe a banker foreclosed on the old...
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Check Out the Bathrooms: Seeing Corporate Culture and Leadership
Recently I had a very enjoyable business meeting with a former CEO who is now an advisor to a private equity investment group. Having someone who has “been there” in the hot seat multiple times...
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The DEW Line and A Business Early Warning System
The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations established by the US and Canadian governments across the Canadian Arctic region in...
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The Leadership of Corporate Culture
Real leadership is about influence, not a title or position! Dr. Larry Senn wrote his PhD dissertation at UCLA in 1970 on a breakthrough concept in business and organisation behaviour. The title was...
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Admiral Rickover and The Responsibility of Leadership
(Note: This is a blog I published over 2 years ago, but the message needs repeating, at least to me!) “Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous...
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Understanding Corporate Culture: Experience vs Theory
Good judgement is the result of experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement. ~Cowboy Wisdom There seem to be two schools of thought about how to be an effective leader and business person....
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Leadership, Friction and Culture Change
The secret to success is to work smarter, not harder! In a recent blog (Friction and Culture Change) I used the physical concept of friction to help explain the difficulties in culture change and why...
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The Cap Seller and the Monkeys: A Leadership Parable
(This is a post from several years back, but a good concept to think about over the weekend.) “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” Galatians 6:7 Once there was a young boy who sold caps (baseball style caps)...
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Is Your Corporate Culture a Poorly Dubbed Movie?
I enjoy watching films, I guess it’s the escapism into a new world, getting inside the lives of new characters, and being carried along by the storyline. As Robert McKee, one of the gurus of screen...
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Why Culture Change Programs Don’t Deliver . . . Another Viewpoint
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. ~ Mark Twain There is a very popular TV game show in American culture called Family Feud which features two competing families must name the most popular...
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