Strategy Talk: What’s the Right Mix of Organic Growth and Acquisitions?
Three questions will help you find the best combination of buy, borrow, and build for your business.
s+b Blogs: Strategy & Leadership
No Person Left Behind
What can be done when business and society marginalize those with cognitive decline?
Leaders: Break Through Your Learning Blockers
Spot and resist the bad habits that hinder your innovation potential.Take our quiz to find out if you are seeking opportunities to grow: “Are You Increasing Your Learning Agility — Or Are You Missing Out?”
Making Change Contagious
Nuanced findings in network science suggest that the conventional wisdom about diffusing new ideas may hinder, not help, their spread.
Increasing Your Global Fluency
For recent grads and seasoned executives alike, on-the-ground experience in foreign locales can help you bridge your global skills gap and increase your ability to innovate.
Financial Services Need Not Be Such a Tough Industry for Women
A new survey finds women in FS face more challenges at work than their counterparts in other industries.
Leadership Lessons of the Tango
What the Argentine dance can teach high-performance teams.
A Practical Plan to Become a More Agile Learner
To gain experience and build your transformation readiness, turn these learning accelerators into habits. Take our quiz to find out if you are seeking opportunities to grow: Are You Increasing Your Learning Agility — Or Are You Missing Out?
How Transformation-Ready Leaders Learn
Take the time and effort to look for new ways of doing things, and turn away from old habits that block that process. Take our quiz, “Are You Increasing Your Learning Agility — Or Are You Missing Out?”, to find out if you are seeking opportunities to grow.
Why Wandering Works Wonders for Managers
There are lots of whimsical ways to stay grounded, but simply walking around the workplace is still the best.
The Leadership Maker Movement
Four ways to catalyze high achievement amid turbulence and rapid change.
Chaos Is Not a Viable Leadership Style
Sowing seeds of confusion and discord is no way to run an organization.
Make Your Company’s Culture Go Viral
How to spread the critical few behaviors that drive strategy forward. See also “How Can You Make Your Company’s Culture Go Viral?”
Could Iceland Win the 2018 FIFA World Cup?
The ability of a small country to field a world-class soccer team can teach businesses about the power of good management for team building.
Seven Tips for Managing Procrastinators
It’s not your job to cure procrastinators. Your job is to get them to do their jobs.
Using Improv to Transform How You Lead
By embracing the concept of “yes, and,” managers can improve how they communicate. See also “Three Questions to Help You Become a ‘Yes, And’ Leader.”
Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills
Stepping away from the screen and putting pen to paper allows the brain to reflect, process, and find patterns. See also “How Journaling Can Help Leaders Achieve Their Goals.”
The Art of the Transition
How to navigate from task to task with greater efficiency.
What to Do When Success Leaves You Empty
When we are caught up in achieving a goal, we can forget to enjoy the process. Here’s how to change that. See also “You’ve Reached a Career Milestone. Now What?”
How Leaders Can Play the Loyalty Card
Fealty is something leaders have to earn.
Strategy Talk: Can Strategy Be Decisive and Flexible?
Clear choices can provide stability for your organization while also enhancing your strategic options and ability to adapt.
Getting the Autocratic Leaders We Deserve
We want our leaders to be decisive, proactive, and undaunted — but only to a point.
How to Lead Cynics
Be honest, play fair, and do what you say you are going to do.
When Should a CEO Tweet about a Controversy?
Knowing when and when not to comment officially on a public issue.
Strategy Talk: Can the Latest Organizational Innovations Really Help Us?
Evaluate new management approaches, such as holacracy and agile, based on how they can improve clarity and collaboration at your company.
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