MARK'S ARTICLES AND INSIGHTS

I love to play and coach basketball. Back in the 2000’s, I remember wrapping up the last game in our city’s adult recreational basketball league. We had lost, again. The bottom line was that we did not have a foundation of trust and so nothing else mattered.

How can you feel confident in handling the unexpected when presenting to or interacting with senior leaders?

Most organizations are experiencing change. This is nothing new. Most organizations must change – either to adapt to changing conditions, meet a challenge, or because the status quo is not working. This also is nothing new. The problem many leaders struggle with is how to gain commitment to that change? Here are six keys to make that happen…

An organization, department, agency, or team cannot thrive in the midst of change and disruption if the leadership is experiencing unnecessary turbulence due to personality clashes or negative behaviors. Yet the reality is that many leadership teams are experiencing these types of issues. In this post, I share three pieces of advice from two leaders who have been there.

It’s in the gaps between teams where the speed, adaptability, resilience, and strength of an organization are determined. It’s in the gaps where it’s determined how quickly we can “permeate new strategic company objectives” throughout the organization, as PricewaterhouseCoopers articulates it. Unassailable organizations eliminate gaps.