Nina Nets It Out
Leadership is not the end point; its task is to create an environment in which other leaders can flourish. Let the conversation begin!
Growth Mindset: Are You the Problem?
What would describe your leadership style? Would others say you have a fixed or a growth mindset? Here’s why you should aim for growth.
Beat the Employee Engagement Crisis by Leading for the Future with Your Head, Heart and Hands
Employee engagement is fundamental to high performance and business growth, and it can be substantially impacted by your performance as a leader. Take a future-forward mindset, and work to improve employee engagement using your head, heart and hands, and you’ll be surprised how quickly growth is impacted.
To Create Innovation, Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome
We are all attracted to the new. But is your innovation lasting or is just bright and shiny?
Lessons Learned from a Year of Innovating
2016 was a year of disruption, change and innovation. What have we learned?
Saying Yes to High Visibility Projects – Five Steps to Visible Success
No matter whether you are just starting out in your career or about to retire, saying “yes” to high visibility projects should be at the top of your list of priorities.
Innovating Across Three Horizons
I will be the first to admit that numbers matter. It matters that you set them, pursue them and achieve them. As leaders, we need to be across the numbers - from revenue targets to cost centers, investments to acquisitions, and everything in between. But not all...
Innovation – It’s Like Juggling Chainsaws
Leaders struggle to balance the competing needs of near term and longer term objectives. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By taking a structured approach to innovation we can learn to balance new innovation alongside our existing businesses.
Come Drive with Me
Today I walked out of the office and into the fresh air. I stopped, looked across the parking lot, looked to the sky and began to walk. I took my time. I took long, deep breaths and felt the clear, unfiltered air filling my body. My head cleared and I scanned the...
Three Degrees of Separation and the Compassionate Leader
The compassionate leaders understand that, more than ever, we are more closely connected to each other in the workplace and beyond.
Culture Beyond Equality
There has been much public focus and attention on the subject of equal pay – but in the seven years since the passing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, little has changed. Equality is a goal worth striving for – but the culture of business needs work before we can see more significant gains made.
2016 – The Year of Conscious Innovation
Often when we think of innovation, we call to mind those projects that fly below the radar within the enterprise, only to surface at some point to loud applause, fully formed and functioning. These are the make or break innovations that change companies or industries....
The Five Principles of Lean Leadership
Where the lean startup approach focuses on ideas, coding and data, lean leadership sets the conditions for maximum acceleration. But what of leaders and leadership? Here are five principles for the lean leader.
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