Posts Tagged ‘effective’

Achieving high performance is a big challenge for leadership during uncertain times.  Many organizations and companies look for new ways to assign, combine, and re-allocate their assets to improve performance during tough times.  Unfortunately, these changes too often come in the form of reactive management and negatively impact performance.
High performance leadership during uncertain times is [...]

The most important characteristic of survivors, in all contexts, is resiliency.  Resiliency capacity is built through the management of energy.  Nobody is immune to the effects of linear stress.  We all must learn to create waves of stress and recovery.  However, the waves are not meant to just maintain balance.  They should be created in [...]

When times get tough, many people are tempted to withdraw, cut their loses, and wait things out.  In some ways this can be a valid strategy.  However, you must also pursue a path of growth if you are going to survive and thrive during these tough times.
“One can choose to go backward toward safety or [...]

More and more these days, we all experience times when our electronic devices need to be reset in order to function as intended.  There are vast amounts of data being feed into these devices each and every moment.  Sometimes the data is valuable, sometimes the data is garbage.  Over time, all this data piles up [...]

Long-term Strategic Planning is a thing of the past. At least it is in the form that it took in the 20th Century. Many of the components of a long-term strategic plan are still important and relevant today but some aspects of the 20th Century strategic planning process are now antiqued. The strategic planning process [...]

You start a new year. You have New Year resolutions. You have goals for the year. You have plans. You know where you’re going and you are committed to getting there.
 
Then, out of the blue, just as you start to make the real progress, life gets in the way. Something unexpectedly comes up…a significant problem [...]

Each of us needs to take responsibility for the momentum and results in our life.  We need to be proactive with our personal actions to change our momentum and results.  However, there are times that we can look outside our immediate circle of influence to build on the momentum established by other momentum changers out [...]

When times are good, you are riding the momentum of the good times without consciously being aware of it.  During those good times, you ride the waves and can direct your conscious mind toward low hanging fruit, tactical moves, and the vast opportunities available in the marketplace to create good results and move forward.
 
However, when [...]

Meetings generally occur as a necessary evil in most organizations. They are usually created and added to people’s calendar to solve some communication need or problem. Yet, most people lack the ability to run effective meetings. Some seek help in running effective meetings. That’s okay, but ineffective really, when the meeting itself does not have [...]