Celebration is often a challenging topic for leaders. They wonder if they should celebrate and when they should celebrate. They waffle between “we don’t need to celebrate, people know we are succeeding” and celebrating every, single, little thing along the way. The best answer (as is the often the case) lies somewhere in the middle. […]
Four Ways to Accelerate Change Successfully
If you read the above title from a leadership perspective you may be thinking: “I’m really interested in that, but I don’t know if it is possible to accelerate change – with as much change as is already occurring.” And, if you read it as an employee, you may be thinking: “We have plenty of […]
A Two-Step Process for Accelerating Your Success
Many people spend some time at the end of the year working on the New Year. These people typically fall into two groups: those who use the end of the year as a way to be introspective and look back on the past year, and those who spend time looking forward; setting goals and planning […]
Go Slow to Go Fast
I’ve been telling people this for several years. The admonishment, for me, began with my work teaching Quality Improvement at Chevron. In that work we found, to no one’s surprise, that people often focus on the task – solving a problem – much more than on the process – understanding its causes (and planning solutions […]