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How to address the challenge of managing overwhelming workloads when delegation is not feasible, either because tasks cannot be delegated …
Category Archives: People
A Strong Purpose: Making Your Company a Magnet for Talent
To find and make the most of talent, companies need to be good at five disciplines: Strategic hiring: Hire people …
Project Management: Managing Expectations
As a project manager, you are responsible for delivering results that meet the expectations of your stakeholders. But how do …
Are You a Difficult Person to Work For?
In looking back at my career, I know I could be a difficult manager to work for. Demanding. Grand expectations. …
Every Leader Has Flaws. Don’t Let Yours Derail Your Strategy.
The effects of a leader’s personality on an organization’s culture have been long understood. But some personality flaws have a …
Are we back to the Peter Principle?
We’ve all been there. We have an amazing mid manager. They really get results. We promote them. They crash and …
BeyondTrust Builds a Culture of Learning and Leadership at Scale with Frontline Leader Impact
BeyondTrust, a cyber-security company and the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management (PAM), wanted to build and reinforce a culture …
How important is compassion as a leader?
Compassion is a huge thing as a leader. That it is lacking in so many cases today is stunning. We hear …
Are you being left out?
Fear is real and we don’t know sometimes the grip it can have on us. I hadn’t thought of this, …
Where are the walls now to your office?
We have moved to an “open world”. This is not just a pandemic related issue. This has been happening for …
What is it like to be a digital executive?
We are all online now more than ever. It is never-ending. Working from home has made invasive. We have no …
Training can deliver the sustained revenue growth you are looking for. But not on its own.
Here is some great insight on the value of training. It is from Mark Wills at EnablingUS Pte Ltd. Mark helps business and …
Establish, Scale, And Evolve Your Customer Experience Culture Work Practice
Here is some great research from Forrester. I am a big fan of theirs. Paying attention to the culture is …
Are Your Managers in Sync with Your Change Strategy?
Are Your Managers in Sync with Your Change Strategy? “A few years ago, we noticed something curious: Successful business transformations were …
Is employee engagement a top of priority?
Employee engagement is foundational to customer engagement. It is highly unlikely that an employee who hates their job or who …
Our Work Is Our Worship: One Woman’s Faithfulness in the Little Things
Here is some great insight on work and worship. John Stonestreet is President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and …
Is it a question of the facts?
Will technology save you? Not likely. It can help transform you but without a passion for amazing experiences that customers …
What’s a customer worth over the time you have a relationship with them?
In the world of marketing and the customer experience, there are two things worth knowing. The Digital Executive knows the …
Can we Slow Down and Write Better Emails?
So many of our exchanges today happen in written (or typed) form — think email, text, IM — meaning that …
What to know about how to use social media.
Robert Hunt leads business leaders through Peer to Peer Advisory Groups, provides them Executive Coaching, and Leadership Development sessions. He …
Do You Have Boss Who Just Can’t Say No?
This is a real issue for most of us. Here is some insight from Joan Garry. Joan began her career …
Designing for Digital-First Customers: Focus on Experience as a Driver for Breakthrough Innovation
Brian Solis has great insight on experience design. Brian is Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, the global leader in Customer …
Make Time for Small Talk in Your Virtual Meetings
The move to all Zoom can miss the normal human interactions we enjoy in face to face meetings. Sometimes it …
Will we see the joy in the love of the work itself?
This is invaluable. This perspective, regardless of what your boss thinks, is worth its weight in gold. Work is a …
How do we frame our future?
Stake, a transitive verb. To risk; at stake. In jeopardy. What is at stake? I have been thinking about this …
Are we listening to our customers?
Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening? Here’s Julian Treasure to help you fix that. As the …
Does love and caring make a difference to our customers?
This is almost invaluable: And leave it up to Seth Godin to say it. People (and customers) know when we care …
Stop Making Excuses for Toxic Bosses
I imagine we have all experienced this at one time or another. It is, in fact, very toxic. We know …
5 Ways To Motivate Your Remote Team
We are in the middle of huge changes in how we work. How do we keep everyone motivated? Here are …
Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO, will become executive chairman
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of the e-commerce giant, the company said in a surprise announcement on Tuesday. Bezos …
The Best Ways Leaders Promote Happiness
Here is some great insight from Lolly Daskal about our responsibility as leaders. We all want employees to be happy …
My Manifesto: Experience Matters [Bruce Temkin]
From Bruce Temkin: In September 2007 I published my initial manifesto: Great Customer Experience Is Free. I still fully believe in …
Are You Pushing Yourself Too Hard at Work?
Here is some great insight we all should pay attention to in our lives. God rested on the 7th day. …
What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity
It happens way to easily. It is a slippery slope. Too many of us go down this path. Here is …
Don’t Be Afraid to Disagree in a Job Interview
Should you disagree in a job interview? When you’re interviewing for a job, you typically have one primary goal: impress the …
Where is your organization chart taking you?
You have to love this funny chart but also Seth Godin’s great questions in his blog. Is it because it …
How to Make Hot Desking Work for Your Small Business
Just like humans outgrow their clothes, expanding businesses outgrow their workspaces. Finding the right size office for your company can …
Does past performance guarantee future results?
Let’s start with the facts. In a 10-year study of 1,500 corporations with the biggest market caps, three noted business school professors …
Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader
Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback, authors of “Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader,” describe …
Who will lead the digital charge in our company? Who will be the champion and evangelist?
Many of us face interesting questions. The are, at the core, questions of leadership. Who will lead the digital charge …
Is turnover more than a rare occurrence in your organization?
Today’s guest blog is from Andrew Jackson. Andrew has spent the last 30 years building and managing technical service companies. …
Is it possible to be too connected in this digital age?
How often does the social media monster swallow you whole? More than you may think, according to Red e App, …
Is the big deal understanding the connected generation?
What qualifies as digital alienation for the CIO and the digital executive? Is it about “age” or is about being …
Does breaking jobs into tiny pieces yield better, faster, cheaper work — and greater flexibility for employees?
Tom Malone, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of the HBR article “The Age of Hyperspecialization,” …
How customer focused are our employees on any given day?
Being customer focused is about how engaged our employees are on any given day. Engaged employees lead to engaged customers. …
4 Reasons Good Employees Lose Their Motivation
The employee experience and employee engagement is a huge issue related to the customer experience. Unengaged employees have a direct …
Are you inspired by technology or overwhelmed?
We all know it. We all hear it. Leadership loves to talk about change. Employees love to ignore it. Talk …
What does innovation look like?
Below is a guest blog from Rick Johnston. Rick is consultant for multiple nonprofit organizations; interested in providing digital strategy …
Have employees gone through some “training,” but are never “trained”?
Is it about checking the box called training or is about learning? It is actually about both but many times …
What should I stop doing today? My new to do list!
I am a big fan of list of things “to stop” doing. We all have “to do” lists but we …
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