Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives
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Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives
What the American automakers did with their rubber mallets is a metaphor for how so many people and organizations lead. When faced with a result that doesn’t go according to plan, a series of perfectly effective short-term tactics are used until the desired outcome is achieved. But how structurally sound are those solutions? So many organizations
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Summer Reset – Part 2
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Competing priorities surface. We worked with a bank whose leaders insisted they prioritized people even over profits. But we talked to people across the organization, we found the opposite. The leadership had to choose: accept who they really were or make big changes to match their words.
When I looked at my strategy document, I could see a purpose and then a huge jump into leadership and the strategic choices we had made. But where was landscape, climate and doctrine? I started to think back to every business book that I had read. Everything seemed to do this jump from purpose to leadership.
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... See moreI thought to myself, how many company CEOs are focused on culture above all else? Is it the metric they measure closest? Is it what they spend most of their hours on each week?
The thing that will endure for 100 years, the way it has for most 100 year companies, is the culture. The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If