Leadership mastery. Has a nice sound to it doesn’t it? I starting thinking seriously about leadership mastery as I was coming along in my Air Force career. Along the way, I had the opportunity to attend a variety of different professional military schools. One of them in particular was the Naval War College. As a…
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Let’s talk about these “old-fashioned” words called discipline, perseverance, grit, and determination. Those words, when it comes to leading change, are really going to determine whether you succeed or fail. Whether the change initiative is implemented and successful, whether it’s partially implemented, or it just goes by the wayside altogether. In a previous video on…
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What’s the best way to create a strategy? When I work with clients we focus on five questions. That’s right, answering just five simple questions: Who are we? That gets to the notion of identity and plugs into your purpose. Who you are is the basis of your culture and the foundation upon which everything…
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In this video, I discuss two things you need to consider to lead change, over and above developing a strategy, which are what I call intelligence preparation of the battlespace and operational preparation of the battlespace. From a military perspective, intelligence preparation of the battlespace is gathering all the data on the problem that you’re…
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