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There’s Greatness in this Younger Generation

In a recent program with experienced managers, the inevitable and mind numbing and stupid topic of how difficult it is to manage the younger workers surfaced and people jumped on this out-of-tune bandwagon like they were giving away free money. Perhaps it's not the youth of the group that need to change. Consider...

October 7th, 2015|

The Next Act—Answering The Wake-Up Call

For most of the later career re-inventors I’ve worked with, the wake-up call wasn’t so much a single trigger event as it was a confluence of several issues. It's a big decision to leave behind something you've been doing for decades. It may be the best decision for you, but a bit of planning goes a long way. Here are 9 suggestions for anyone considering answering the career-reinvention wake-up call:

October 4th, 2015|

The Next Act—for Later Career Leaders

New and emerging leaders are our future. It’s essential to support their development as they take the reins in our challenging world. They are and will remain the focal point of my content here at Management Excellence. However, there’s an audience whose needs in my opinion are grossly under-served in the career and leadership blogging and writing ecosystem: the later-career (read: over-50) senior leaders and executives. With this post, I'm announcing a new blog feature focused on the needs of this experienced audience.

September 21st, 2015|

17 Ways Your Strategy Process Will Fail

Strategy processes mostly disappoint. That’s too bad, because there are few things more essential to an organization’s success and security than getting strategy right. Here are (at least) 17 ways your strategy process will break bad:

September 17th, 2015|
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