According to research my colleagues and I conducted, upwards of 80 percent of leaders who work on major initiatives, projects, or programs experience some form of team failure. Team failures, wherein ...

With executive teams, there is often an unconscious role playing—an emotional reenactment of old stories. After many months of stalled projects and disagreements, one of my clients approached me, ...

Organizations struggle, miss opportunities and lose talented people when leaders and managers fail to hold others accountable. Evidence of this includes dysfunctional teams, lost deals, missed ...

Dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things. And, thanks to plenty of the perennially dysfunctional teams, the league is a current dysfunction mess. The current hiring cycle, which at one point seemed ...

Organizations today don’t operate alone. They’re part of what I call the meta system—an ecosystem that includes stakeholders, competitors and the entire industry. Team coaching helps teams step back ...

An accountability team is a group of leaders who meet regularly to share honest feedback and hold one another accountable. Accountability teams give clarity on the CEO role, enhance decision-making, ...

Every organization has a culture, but on the very top, it’s the culture within the executive committee—the ExCo—that really shapes how strategy comes to life. The ExCo is not just a decision-making ...

In the modern, demanding construction and infrastructure setting, accountability is not merely a professional standard, but rather a leadership quality that explains the difference between a great and ...

And almost always… people flinch. They think of punishment, of blame, of being called out. Across healthcare, engagement surveys tell the same story. One of the lowest-rated statements year after year ...