Tl;dr — ★★★★★ (🏆 FAV of 2022) When we play the role of business manager for our clients or work with Chiefs of Staff, we’re often hyper focused on efficiencies of systems and how information gets organized & operationalized in the org. There’s a scary, nebulous concept lurking behind that work though — change. And it’s…
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A few years back, the CEO of a digital healthcare company announced to employees his decision to walk away from a $22M deal, the largest customer contract in the company’s history. The customer’s expanding demands for new functionality didn’t make sense on the company’s product roadmap, he explained. A year later, he told employees about…
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Tl;dr – ★★★★★ We’re sure you’ve heard of Brené Brown at this point — and if you haven’t, where have you been? It feels like her TED Talks and books are everywhere. She’s referenced in many of the other books we’ve read about equity, team culture, and change. That’s because she is the SME on…
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Is your organization purpose framed on the walls of your sparsely populated office space? Or maybe it’s buried in your company’s articles of incorporation that no one reads? If so, you could be paying a price, because in the era of reckoning and reevaluation, org purpose has never been more important to employees. Research bears…
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Tl;dr – ★★★★★ Every once in a while, we read a book that defies our Tl;dr concept — a book that we want everyone to read in full. We loved this book. “It was one of my favorite books I read all year, and that doesn’t mean favorite books I read for work, it means…
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There’s a set of foundational challenges every leader must solve for to drive organization and business success. A leadership breakdown on Monday Night Football If you missed week one of Monday Night Football this season—a highly anticipated Broncos-Seahawks matchup—you missed a great example of a leadership and process breakdown. With the game on the line,…
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It’s time to close the Leader Achievement Gap (LAG) to help organizations thrive. Last spring, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon ordered employees back to the office full time, citing the magic that happens when junior employees work side-by-side with more experienced bankers. This summer, feeling overworked and undervalued, junior employees at the company quit en…
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Tl;dr – ★★★☆☆ There’s some solid advice wrapped up in this book – but there’s also lots of fluff. Essentially, Thean proposes three types of “rhythms” to accelerate growth — think, plan, and do. Thean argues that a “commitment to cadence” using these rhythms leads to growth for companies. Think Rhythm A rhythm of strategic…
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