Leadership Insights Newsletter Archive

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Newsletter Topics:

Culture – Decision Making – Excellence – Leadership – Mergers and Acquisitions – Strategy – Talent Management – Team Building – Virtuosos

Culture

• Freedom Lessons from the Viet Nam POWs (7/3/2019)
• Why Don’t Boards Understand Culture? (1/3/2019)
• Ten Best Ways to Get Yourself Fired (6/18/2018)
• The Critical Nature of Humor (9/15/2017)
• Be More Funny; Make More Money (10/19/2016)
• Are You Creating Your Own Culture Traps? (3/24/2016)
• How Wall Street Should Define Culture (2/13/2015)
• Brainwashing or Influence? (11/18/2014)
• Bad Judgment: The Mother of Unintended Consequences (10/15/2014)
• Ten Decisions That Will Kill Your Culture (9/12/2014)
• Does Your Company Need a Sterile Cockpit? (6/16/2014)
• The Mystical Powers of Culture (5/21/2014)
• Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride Bikes? (3/14/2014)
• Agility: The Guns Germs & Steel of the Organization (9/23/2013)
• The Paradoxical Organization  (5/15/2013)
• Never Run Out of Altitude, Airspeed, and Ideas at the Same Time  (2/12/2013)
• Creating a Culture of Change  (8/16/2012)

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Decision Making

• How to Make Really Tough Calls (06/13/2019)
• Don’t Pay Your Employees from the Neck Down (02/26/2019)
• Get Your Mind Right Before You Engage Your Mouth ((o8/21/2018)
• The Success Mindset (04/30/2018)
• Faulty Risk-Taking: The Genesis of Unintended Consequences (07/26/2017)
• Quit Erecting Barriers (06/19/2017)
• How to End Indecision (03/17/2017)
• Are You Tough Enough to Cross the Rubicon? (07/20/2016)
• Change: Yesterday’s Dangerous Idea (05/18/2016)
• Get More Without Settling for Less (04/15/2016)
• Business Resolutions for 2016 (12/18/2015)
• Four Things You Can’t Ignore about Tough Calls (11/17/2015)
• Ten Signs You Need to Make Some Tough Calls (08/19/2015)
• The Saintliness of Burly Sinners (07/17/2015)
• Create a Powerhouse (6/18/2015)
• Essential Mid-Course Corrections (5/29/2015)
• The Crucibles of Destiny (1/16/2015)
• Poverty Mentality Leads to Poor Decisions (7/18/2014)
• People *Like* Consensus (7/2014)

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Excellence

• Thirteen Ways to Have a Better 2019 (1/14/2019)
• Consistency: The Antithesis of the One-Hit Wonder (8/18/2017)
• Are You Tough Enough? (2/16/2017)
• Walt Disney: The Business Professional’s Exemplar  (7/16/2012)
• The Essence of Excellence  (7/25/2011)
• Excellence Out of the Ashes: Lessons from Pinatubo  (6/15/2011)

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Leadership

• The Genesis of Conspiracy Theories (05/17/2019)
• Leadership Lessons from John McCain (09/04/2018)
• Leadership Lessons from the Coke Machine (03/14/2018)
• The Learning Mindset (01/15/2018)
• Is There Such a Thing As a Stupid Question? (11/22/2107)
• Why Carrots and Sticks Don’t Motivate (1/18/2017)
• Ten Lessons Clients Taught Me in 2016 (12/19/2016)
• Don’t Let Employees Break Your Engagement (06/17/2016)
• Just Say “No” to Interim CEOs (01/25/2016)
• Let’s Outlaw Mistletoe (10/14/2015)
• How to Ruin a Powerhouse (09/24/2015)
• Snakes in the C-Suite (12/17/2014)
• Seven Signs You Might be a Weak Leader (1/15/2014)
• The Legacy of Heroic Leaders (12/18/2013)
• Coaching in the Majors: Advice from Cardinal’s Hitting Coach (11/15/2013)
• No Room for Error (6/20123)
• Who Needs an Echo in the Room?  (4/17/2013)
• Dear Boss, I Quit   (11/15/2012)
• Leading at DEFCON 2  (10/22/2012)
• Ten Ways to Engage Virtuosos  (6/18/2012)
• What Happens When Beer Goes Bad?  (4/19/2012)
• How to Position Yourself for Board Membership  (1/19/2012)
• The Turbulent Nature of Leading Virtuosos   (9/15/2011)

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Mergers and Acquisitions

• The High Price of Overconfidence in M & A Deals (03/19/2019)
• Don’t Confuse Execution with Strategy, or You’ll Jeopardize Both (11/05/2018)
• The Art of M & A Integration (4/16/2015)
• Deal or No Deal (3/16/2015)

Strategy

• Will Your Customers Invest in Your Strategy? (05/22/2018)
• The Henman Innovative Approach to Hiring (03/04/2018)
• Seven Secrets for Developing Evergreen Clients (02/15/2018)
• Give Customers What They Want for Christmas (12/13/2017)
• Confronting Our Comfort Zones (05/25/2017)
• Heroes Don’t Have Comfort Zones (04/18/2017)
• Ten Ways to Tie a Strong Strategy to an Equally Strong Succession Plan(11/15/2016)
• Five Secrets for Developing Business (09/19/2016)
• The Importance of Couching Your Strategy (08/19/2016)

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Talent Management

• Five Ways to Encourage Discretionary Efforts (03/02/2018)
• Ten Ways to Coach Clever People (2/17/2016)
• How Critical is Critical Thinking? (2/17/2014)
• Defanging Snakes  (3/14/2013)
• Beware Snakes in Suits  (12/14/2012)
• You Want Top-Drawer Talent, Emulate TOPGUN  (2/23/2012)
• Your Three Worst Talent Nightmares  (5/17/2011)

Team Building

• We Need More Heroes (4/18/2019)
• Miracles Happen With Virtuosos  (8/23/2011)

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Virtuosos

• Was Steve Jobs a Talking Dog  (7/15/2013)
• Why Does Bill Gates Go to Work? (4/17/2014)
• The Care and Feeding of Virtuosos  (1/15/2013)
• Let’s Defend Elitism  (9/18/2012)
• Garden-Variety Practice Won’t Make Perfect  (5/18/2012)
• Intelligence: The Coinage of the Virtuoso’s Realm  (12/23/2011)
• How to Grow a Virtuoso  (10/24/2011)

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