As leaders, we often find ourselves bridging gaps in our teams – assuming tasks they should be handling, pondering over issues they should be addressing. And in doing so, we deviate from our primary responsibilities. It’s frustrating when it feels like everyone is performing below their potential. So, if I aspire to stretch the abilities of …
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“I can see the benefits, but don’t really have time for coaching right now,” said Diana, a CEO I’ve known for some time. “But it’s crazy-busy this month… let’s come back to it in a quarter.” You can probably guess how the story ended… or, rather, didn’t end. We checked back in a quarter later. Unsurprisingly, it was …
Are you grappling with underperforming team members? If you’re shouldering tasks that your team should be taking on, tolerating a leader who’s not delivering, or patiently waiting for team members to up their game, then let’s face it, you’re facing a genuine challenge. It’s a performance drain, a time-sucker and an obstacle on the road …
Received wisdom states that to proceed in life and business, we need to set objectives and work towards them. This prevalent mindset starts from our earliest days, where we are encouraged to set ourselves objectives in school, such as achieving A grades, and set to work pursuing them. It’s the same in business, where goal setting is …
Exponential leadership is my obsession. In fact, I’m on a mission to help the world’s top leaders create and seize breakthrough opportunities that transform themselves, their businesses and, ultimately, change the world. This shift from incremental to exponential is why I wrote Making TIME For Strategy. And it’s why I was delighted to receive an advance copy of …
“I want to continue to make an impact. But I don’t want the next phase of my life to take a toll on my health more than the last phase did. And I want to actually have time with my family…” I was speaking with Sam. A former CEO, he was at a turning point …
You’re already an accomplished executive. What’s next for you? In the first article in this mini-series, we looked at the three leadership games and saw how each game is an order-of-magnitude more impactful than the previous:And in the previous article, we acknowledged that people find it hard to shift leadership games, because it requires a very different …
Most people have no idea how to 10X their impact because they’re already doing the best they feel they can. They can’t work significantly harder — there aren’t enough hours in the day — and they don’t have the option to dramatically increase budget or headcount. In a previous article, I suggested a different approach. To 10X …
“I’m nailing this role – I don’t have anything I really need to work on.”A client said this to me recently. Now, I love hearing clients say this, because it means we get to really hit the accelerator and open up new possibilities. And as I expected, when we dug in, it turned out she was …
If your team isn’t fully engaged and fully owning the projects and areas of responsibility they’ve been assigned, then you’re leaving a lot of value on the table. Progress will be slow. Results will be mediocre. You’ll be repeatedly sucked back into low-level issues to compensate. The good news is that as a leader you can shape a better …
In the previous article in this brief series on ownership, I explained that as leaders we have the responsibility to create an ownership environment for others and that everybody has a responsibility to generate an ownership stance for themselves. Today we’re going to look at what taking an ownership stance really means. The way I see it, an ownership …
In the previous article in this mini series on creating an ownership culture comment we first explored the leadership choice that is available in any situation:We can either take the path of victimhood entitlement and avoidance orWe can take the path of leadership, ownership and actionWhat this means for us as leaders is that we can’t blame …
“The problem I have is that my team isn’t taking enough ownership.” It’s a comment I hear a lot from senior leaders. My response is, “well, how are you taking ownership for that situation?” That generally leads us into a discussion of the leadership choice and an exploration of what levers are available to a leader who wants to draw …
In today’s article I want to offer you a simple model to better understand how the choices you are making are impacting your impact as a leader. In any situation or challenge that we face we have two paths available to us. The first option is to look at what we did not have, that stopped us achieving …
In this mini-series we’ve examined why Strategic Time is the #1 metric that governs exponential success. It’s how we step back from the day-to-day to envision – and move forward on – our breakthrough projects. Last time, we looked at the four key challenges you’ll have to overcome if you want to free up time for strategy:T – …
Last time we talked about why your #1 KPI for future success is the amount of Strategic Time is that you can create each week. To recap:Every hour of Strategic Time is an investment in the future and, done right, will pay dividends for years to come.Contrast that with doing operational work, which only gets you short-term …
Interviewing 75 of the world’s top CEOs told me one thing about creating exponential impact. But let me start with a story from a couple of weeks back. I took a half-day to think about my business, and another half-day to work on it with my own coach. It was a game-changer.I got much clearer on my vision, …
We just wrapped up Season 12 of the Impact Multiplier CEO Podcast, which we entitled “Making Time For Strategy”. Davina Stanley interviewed me about what inspired me to write the book and what some of the main messages are. Here are seven important lessons that emerged from those conversations. I do recommend you listen in to the full episodes, as …
“Being crazy-busy is just part of executive leadership, right?”This was a comment from a CEO client of mine, pulled in a million directions by her board, her team and her clients. And yet, I was reminded of another conversation with a CEO of a publicly traded business just a few days before. He’d explained how he’d …
How can you make the next twelve months truly extraordinary? I find that a fascinating question, because it takes us out of the sphere of New Year resolutions and incremental goal-setting and gets us thinking expansively and boldly. Regular readers will know that I’m a big proponent of exponential leadership – the idea of multiplying your impact instead of “adding” a …
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