Posts by George Veth
Centered leadership creates connection in turbulent times
McKinsey’s Joanna Barsh discusses how you can become an effective and engaged leader.
Read MoreLeadership Training Can Pay Huge Dividends for Midsize Companies
Middle-market companies’ common objections to investing in leadership development programs reflect real constraints and concerns. These companies don’t have many layers of hierarchy and often rely on informal processes for talent management and development. But it’s important to overcome the objections, as data shows a clear correlation between superior talent planning and company performance.
Read MoreForget ‘The Art of War’
Real Leadership is Built on Emboldened Empathy
Read MoreAvoid The Country Club: Stay Hungry Even When You’re Successful
The healthier the company, the harder it is to drive true innovation and change inside its walls. Some tips for staying hungry.
Read MoreBuild a Better Dashboard for Your Agile Project
Good, reliable data is often the key to making an agile project successful. But project managers often struggle to get the data they need — or to find it in a sea of data they don’t. A project to address this problem at Honeywell Inc. can be a model for companies struggling to build useful…
Read MoreThe power—and pitfalls—of dynamic pricing for omnichannel retailers
Former Overstock.com executive Seth Moore clears up some common misconceptions about how dynamic pricing works in e-commerce and omnichannel retail.
Read MoreHow New CEOs Can Balance Strategy and Execution
As we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, companies will need to drive short-term results while also rethinking strategy amid seismic shifts in competitive environments and ways of working. It’s not strategy vs. execution; it’s strategy and execution with the right balance in the right timeframes. New CEOs, in particular, can struggle with this balance.
Read MoreClarify or Reimagine the Strategic Identity of your Organization with Identity Wind Tunneling
Identity Wind Tunneling is an organizational foresight method to understand, test, and manage multiple, current organizational identities using scenarios to consequently arrive at a strategic identity that either clarifies or reimagines the identity of the organization.
Read MoreYour Company Needs a Digital Nomad Policy
The authors’ research shows that the number of Americans describing themselves as digital nomads rose by 49% between 2019 and 2020, and that unlike in previous years, traditional job holders made up a majority of these workers in 2020. Despite the large and growing number of these employees, few organizations have formal policies and programs…
Read More“Weekly Picks” (July 8th)
These are adaptable’s favorite few articles on Strategy Execution for the week ending July 8th. Enjoy!
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