Our unique perspective on organizational oddities...fresh from the airport.
Musings from Gate 44 is a series of papers written from one of the most sacred reflective places in a consultant’s life – the airport. As we depart our client’s cities, we are often decompressing, celebrating, venting, strategizing and reflecting on behalf of those we serve. We’re inviting you into our private thoughts about….you.
- The Transforming Leaders Collection
- The Character of Leadership Collection
- The Leading Change Collection
- The Global Organization & Governance Collection
Leadership Development Machines Run Amuck
Are you struggling to figure out how to maximize the investments you make in growing leadership capacity as a competitive asset? Turns out, most organizations invest in leadership development with the best of intentions, only to find the return on those investments sorely lacking. This may be for you.
Leadership Transformation: Evolutions in Executive Coaching
Have you been through numerous executive coaches for short-term assignments to 'fix' your employees that failed to actualize sustainable leadership transformation? This may be for you.
Act Like a Leader, Not a Lawyer (COMING SOON)
Powerful Leadership in Uncertain Times: An Honest Re-Look at a Leader's Integrity
After a multi-year economic meltdown from too many years of greed, binging, and corrupt leadership, what will it take to truly restore the credibility of those in leadership? For leadership to be seen as acting with integrity, to be viewed as trustworthy above reproach, it's going to take a lot more than just telling the truth.
Leading Green: When Envy and Leadership Join Forces
Are some of your leaders moving dangerously close to the destructive roots of envy such as: an inflated sense of power and influence, the allure of false humility, or an appetitie for winning at all costs? Turns out, highly competitive cultures can breed the unintended, but all too common, toxin of envy. This may be for you.
Phobic Leadership; Understanding the Fears that Bind (Fear) (COMING SOON)
Caught in the Thick of Very Thin Things (COMING SOON)
How pettiness & short-sightedness diminish capacity, suffocate performance, and limit achievement of the greater good aspirations.
The Inner War of the Revolutionary
Do you feel 'wired' to lead great change in your organization, but struggle within yourself to sustain your motivation without driving too hard? Turns out, most revolutionary leaders share the same 'inner war.' If so, this may be for you.
Anatomy of a Revolutionary
As you embark on your next wave of change, do you wonder if you have the right type of talent to lead the charge? What's the DNA of a revolutionary and do you have enough of it? Turns out, most organizations find it hard to identify those leaders that could successfully blaze the trail through major change. This may be for you.
The Three Levels of Transformation (COMING SOON)
Surviving in a Matrixed World: Making the Horizontal Organization Work for You
Is your organization attempting to make a matrix structure work with minimal success? Are you stock piling unresolved border conflcits that are stalling performance? Turns out, most organizations that choose a matrixed strategy, often for very good reasons, fall short in implementing them with success. This may be for you.
Priorititis
Does your organization struggle with the disease of initiative proliferation?
Leading at the Right Level I: Phenomenon of Decision Compression (COMING SOON)
Designing Governance (COMING SOON)
Rethinking Organization Design (COMING SOON)
Leading at the Right Level II: Understanding the System at Different Levels (COMING SOON)
Leading at the Right Level III: Arriving at the Executive Level (COMING SOON)
Leaving behind executional and operational responsibilities and donning the executive mantle.