The Amount of time it takes for teams to get product out the door is your most competitive edge and ultimately the indicator of whether you and your team will succeed.
So in what ways would I like to be like Steven Jobs? Who would want to be like him and why? Quirky, odd, unique, contrarian to his very core, he is the model of the successful career in the 21st Century. In Walter Isaacson’s biography
Carol Kallendorf, PhD, is founder of Delta, Inc. She is a top-rated organizational consultant, executive coach, and facilitator/negotiator. Carol is a Master Practitioner in the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI®), the highest level of recognition attainable. In my childhood and young adult years, I spent
Dorothy Drummer is President of Dorothy Drummer and Associates and is a subject matter expert on hiring high performance employees. Many CEOs have made a bad hire at some point – but if you are wondering about how to insure that you make that bad-hire
As in the iconic 1972 movie, The Godfather, every team you’ve ever been on begins with a wedding. It’s not just that the bride and groom are getting married–it’s the marriage of everyone on the team. The wine is flowing, the outfits are lovely, there
“We’ve got to get the new product release out by Q3, but we can’t, because the product team is incompetent and no one will admit it.” “I know this design is horrible, but I can’t say anything because the VP of Marketing will explode.” “The
As a rising star executive or someone who is already running a turbo-charged organization, you’re at the top of your game. You’re tough, resilient, often brilliant, and you can solve any problem. When there’s something difficult to do, they come to you.
You can achieve the “mission impossible.” But can you sustain it with your energy and present skills?
I have lots of opportunities to visit with people who want to make a big move professionally–but they can’t convince the right people they’re capable. The ups and downs of the tickertape of my life moves on my ability to convince someone that they should hire me–and
Do you sometimes feel you’re the smartest person in the room–and the last to get heard? Are you the invisible person in the room? I know people from CEO to entry level players in organizations that often feel that way. Chronic Invisibility is serious. Not being able
You often hear the question, “Can people really change?” Given my line of work, not surprisingly, I come down on the side of saying, “Yes people can change and yes they do change.” But clearly, a lot of people are more talk than action and
Can national and world crises impact your life and career? It’s all too easy to become distracted from your family, job, your personal and spiritual development if you get distracted by the barrage of crises driven information that not only comes to you through media,
Do you get an incredible high by being the only person who can pull a critical project over the finish line? When there’s an impossible–or nearly impossible–job to be done, do you find yourself volunteering … against your better judgment? Are you everybody’s go-to person?
