Companies expect senior leaders to act like enterprise leaders, but they may not hold them accountable for doing so in the same way. If you’re struggling to close a gap, improve performance, or strengthen your culture of enterprise leadership, consider: Scorecards may differ, but the test is the same If you lead a global organization, […]

Too many companies rely on outdated ways of creating and delivering enterprise value. Here is what leaders can do accelerate growth and deliver more value in 2025.

The best companies, leaders, and teams never stop thinking about how to deliver more value to their customers, markets, and employees, for all the reasons you might guess: Markets and competitive landscapes shift, customer and employee demands evolve, and the ways in which we once delivered value also change. What doesn’t change nearly as quickly […]

In executive coaching, we often explore what’s required to operate at the highest level of your executive role: 100 watts of energy. Here’s the idea: As an executive or senior leader, imagine that you only get 100 watts of energy in a single day. No more, no less, and the bigger, more demanding, more complex […]

A CEO and their team explored the following question at a recent meeting: How will we evolve our current operating model and organizational structure to reduce expense and improve efficiencies? Interest rates and other external shifts were putting massive pressure on the CEO’s business and they were considering a range of options where cost reduction […]

I work with senior leaders who spend a good portion of their time in meetings with their peers. Some like this fact more than others, due in part to some common challenges they experience with each other. For instance: Meetings With Peers Produce Low Value Outcomes Bringing a group of senior leaders together is an […]

A new CEO of a manufacturing company had been given a mandate by the board to drive aggressive growth and double the size of her business over the next five years. To say the strategy differed dramatically from her predecessor was a major understatement, who was known for his relentless focus on driving efficiencies and […]

Part of the executive job description includes the ability to deliver important messages to investors, the media, and their own employees or board. The best executives make it look easy, but in truth, it can take weeks (or months) of preparation to have the desired impact when the stakes are high. What do the best […]

The chief procurement officer for a large technology company was in a bind: He’d been in his role for several years and operating at an exceptional level, by all accounts. A well-liked, respected leader, he was more than overdue for a promotion and was on the short list for several positions. Here’s the problem: “I […]

When leaders report to an uninspiring executive, the negative impact on productivity and execution is real. Too often, uninspiring leaders often are the last ones to see this behavior in themselves, and in my years coaching executives, I rarely see leaders get more than generalized feedback in this critical area, without many practical steps or […]