Are You Setting Yourself / Your Organization Up to Fail? We studied the differences between low-performing and high-performing organizations as they worked to translate business strategic planning into desired business results and found that leadership in high-performing organizations made a
The Leadership Challenge: Addressing Challenges
The Point: Challenges… You can’t live with them… You’d probably be better off living without them! But here’s the reality: Challenges are a part of every leader’s life. We started thinking here at the Javelin Institute, “If challenges are going to be present, how can today’s leader effectively
The Leadership Challenge: Mistakes
The Point: Leadership can certainly pose challenges to those that lead in and of itself. Rarely is leadership a game of perfection and mistakes will be made. We started thinking here at the Javelin Institute, if leadership perfection is rarely the case, then how does a leader overcome the mistakes
The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can Make in 2020 (And Nine Additional Mistakes to Avoid!)
The Point: 2020 will be here before we know it, and I see some disturbing Leadership-trends taking place (Please see my PS and PPSS below for a special offer!) Leadership is tough business when reviewed for results. With a microscopic fine-focus every leader’s actions can be analyzed. We started
The Leadership Challenge: Ownership
The Point: Let’s face the facts in the leadership-arena when it comes to success and failure. Success has many owners, while failure is an orphan. In other words, it’s easy to take ownership as a leader when things are going well. Hit those Sales Goals? Couldn’t have achieved them without my
New Book Series Launched
The "Leading at the Tip of the Spear" new book series launched by Sam Palazzolo provides leaders a unique perspective on what it’s like to successfully lead themselves/their organizations from a Private Equity | Venture Capitalist perspective. The simple truth is that leadership requires you to be