I felt I was having a “nails-on-the-chalkboard” experience. The consultant from ABC Company had just completed an excellent 10-minute presentation of his firm’s six-month project (to recommend how to improve XYZ Company’s overall brand). A prolonged discussion followed as a few of the XYZ Company executives shared their opinions regarding colors on a brochure, . . . → Read More: Leaders Know – Treating Everyone Equally is Not Fair!
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 2 comments - (Comments are closed)  effective meetings, equality, fairness, leadership roles, meetings, say no, serve ethically, strategic, Visionary strategies Execution = Vision and Action “Dave, tell me how you would facilitate our off-site senior management meeting?” Kurt was a no-nonsense CEO of a west coast commercial bank, with an MBA from Harvard.
“What happens at the meeting depends on what you want to happen after the meeting,” I replied. . . . → Read More: Execution – How Effective Leaders Achieve Strategic Goals 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Commanding execute w. passion and courage, Commitment, execute, Feedback, goal setting, strategy, Visionary strategies The cost of turnover for a typical employee is between 48 percent and 61 percent of the employee’s salary, as discussed in a previous blog ( http://davejensenonleadership.blogspot.com/2009/06/six-hiring-mistakes-good-leaders-make.html ). In that blog, I also revealed the six most common mistakes leaders make during the interviewing and hiring process. These errors are why an average of . . . → Read More: How Leaders Interview and Hire the Best Leaders are paid to produce results — to execute when given a goal. Yet while most leaders know all about goal setting, few know what science says about goal achieving. The Figure below employs the eXpansive Leadership Model (XLM) to illustrate a simple synthesis of several hundred research-studies on how to achieve difficult goals. . . . → Read More: Leading by Executing 2: From Goal Setting to Goal ACHIEVING Knowing Where You Are Going I have been an avid goal setter for more than two decades. Over the years, I hit many of my targets, but became frustrated whenever I missed the mark. I blamed myself, and sometimes others, when I fell short. I thought missing personal or business goals meant I . . . → Read More: Execution: From Goal Setting to Goal GETTING |
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