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Team Development: A Search for Elegance

We spend more time than ever trying to achieve results through teams. As important as they are, it’s surprising how little is done to ensure that teams perform at an optimum level. Four critical areas can improve the performance of teams you lead.

The Missing Ingredient in Organizational Change

No matter where your title appears on the org chart, transformational change is usually difficult and often disruptive. But if organizational change is to take root, corresponding change of the organization’s leaders must also take place. As leaders, we must orchestrate and embody such change efforts.

Standing in the Fire

We are all subject to work's tough transitions. And while textbook change management tactics can help show us the external actions we must take to guide organizational change, there are internal demands that we cannot simply delegate away. Learn the secrets of cultivating your own resourcefulness and power in the midst of difficult change.

Diversity Unraveled

Diverse leadership teams outperform more homogeneous teams but can initially be more difficult to manage. Difference can tear us apart or bring us together; it depends on our response. Four critical concepts, when understood and applied, can help bring teams together in transformative ways and pave the way to inspired performance.

The Forgotten Self:
Executive Development for the 21st Century

Successful executives often cite hardships and the lessons learned by grappling with failure as their most significant learning events. But our success-oriented culture demands immediate achievement: We are trained to keep our fears and inner struggles to ourselves. When these interior dynamics are unexamined or kept silent, people, performance, and organizational culture suffer.