The CEO and Culture
PROTECTING WHAT YOU BUILT There's no doubt that the culture, writ large, both in the documented things like core values or key leadership principles and the unwritten rules of how we do things here -- the rules of the game, so to speak -- those are heavily influenced...
Focus on Health in My Local Community
As a volunteer Board member of the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, I am proud to be part of an organization working to prevent kidney disease and provide support for people dealing with kidney disease. As a kidney transplant recipient, I know firsthand...
Leadership and Letting Go
BETTER LEADERSHIP -- HOW TO WEAR FEWER HATS In my leadership practice, I often work with founder-led companies. Some have been around for a long time, and even some of those are run by founder CEOs who -- even after building out a great leadership team - - still...
Taking On a New Leadership Role
CHALLENGES FOR A LEADER PROMOTED FROM WITHIN -- HOW TO START Getting promoted or taking on the leadership role — especially the CEO role — from an internal promotion is an awesome achievement. In addition, it is usually a great thing for the culture because it helps...
Leadership Decision Making
TIME BOXING FOR BETTER TEAM MANAGEMENT For leaders of people, managing conversations, processes, and goals related to performance becomes more predictable, less random, more fact-based, less emotional, and easier to understand when talked about as time-bound...
An Operational Tool Becomes a Diagnotic
Once in a while, when I’m reading about leadership best practices, I notice the mention of tools that, at first, sound kind of mundane. For example, a leadership blogger might talk about agendas or scorecards or forms that track special projects, or a grid that gets...
The Leader And The Team: Growing Your People
How do you skill up your team? Why skill up your team? As the CEO Coach, you need to be very involved with the team, but you are not able to do all the heavy lifting. If you are not directly leading the marketing or the engineering efforts and have just enough...
Your Role as the Leader of Your Team
WHY YOU NEED TO INVEST TIME INTO THE TEAM DYNAMIC Some of my clients are working to figure out the CEO role as their organization is changing. Many of these leaders find themselves challenged with stepping into a new role OR a familiar role in a rapidly changing...
The Ethical Values and Behaviours of CEOs Play Crucial Role in Attracting New Talent
GUEST POST by Meena Andiappan, Madelynn Stackhouse, and Tunde Ogunfowora in The Conversation In today’s job market, where highly skilled workers are scarce and specialized skills are in high demand, employers are facing the challenge of filling job...
Independence: Not Enough To Lead Well
The Capricorn Leader working definition of leadership: Influencing others to take actions that produce positive results. You may or may not agree, as there are unlimited definitions to choose from. For this article, let's roll with it. Independence is critically...