If you want exponential progress, there’s one big shift that you need to make. Almost every entrepreneur and CEO I speak to gets it and admits it’d be a game-changer, but they’ve still not done it. It’s simple: If you want breakthrough results, you have to do fewer things, better. In this article I want to help you …
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 …
If you feel you have no time for the creative, strategic thinking that you know you need to be doing right now, here’s a resource that you’ll want to check out. We’ve just launched season 12 of The Impact Multiplier CEO Podcast. Davina Stanley interviews me about my new book, Making Time For Strategy and draws out some of …
No organisation can be more focused and strategic than its #1 team.Let’s face it:If your leadership team isn’t making time to align around what’s truly important, how can the broader organisation possibly align?If your top leaders are stuck in the weeds, with not enough time to think, what chance does the business have to create breakthrough results?
...Two very quick ‘Xquadrant Insider’ exclusives for you today! Firstly, the cover design for my new book, Making Time For Strategy, has been finalised. Click here to see the LinkedIn post where I made the big reveal. (By the way, it’d be great if you’d leave a comment on the post to give the LinkedIn algorithm a nudge in the …
When I start to work with CEOs and business owners and other extraordinary leaders on their most ambitious goals, we often find they need to elevate their attention and get out of the operational detail. Attention is one of the four Impact Multipliers. If you can focus your attention on the most strategic issues, then you …
What’s the #1 metric that determines your future success? I’ll get to that in just a second, but first I need to introduce you to a couple of people… A tale of two execs: Introducing Nat and SamMeet Nat Natalie or Nathanial, as you prefer. Nat is an organised and disciplined executive with a large scope of …
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