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Is Your Senior Team Willing and Able to Lead Enterprise Change: The Criticality of Top Team Accountability and Alignment

October 11, 2012

“Business is 1% strategy and 99% execution!” a client of ours is fond of saying at every opportunity. What Jim, the CEO of a large, national, multi-format, retail company, means is that he and his team find it relatively straight forward to come up with new and big change ideas, but difficult to mobilize the […]

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Changing the Business, while Running the Business

October 11, 2012

How many organizations have we seen hit the wall and get into big trouble because they didn’t change the business while they were running it? Life changed around them, but they didn’t respond effectively and/or proactively to those changes. General Motors is a good recent example of this. How did GM let this happen, and […]

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Leadership perfected: Leading from the whole you

September 1, 2012

by Brian Brittain Ivy Business Journal | Leadership | September / October 2012 Stepping up and into the crucible of leadership is not the occasion for a leader to start learning about himself. In fact, when the moment comes for us to step up, we must be leadership ready. Above all, this means that we […]

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The Leadership Immunity to Making Things Happen

July 1, 2012

by Brian Brittain Ivy Business Journal | Leadership | July / August 2012 What gets measured may get managed, but what if a leader doesn’t know what needs to get measured? In fact, what if a leader doesn’t even realize that certain assumptions, stored in his sub-conscience, are impeding the organization’s progress? These are the […]

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Mobilize Leaders to Accelerate Results

January 1, 2005

by Brian Brittain, John Swain, and Janice Simpson Ivy Business Journal | Leadership | January / February 2005 “True leadership is a dangerous act,” these coauthors write, and a true leader is perhaps never more at risk than when he or she tries to speed up the pace of organizational change. But by becoming more […]

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