Posts by George Veth
To see the future more clearly, find your blind spots
After being bombarded with disruption in 2020, executives can better prepare for the next crisis by considering new perspectives… The ability to detect early signals of change and connect the dots in emerging patterns will become more important to effective leadership. And that ability will only come through openness and curiosity… Here are four ways…
Read MoreHow Leaders Can Optimize Teams’ Emotional Landscapes
Employees bring a diversity of moods to work each day. Trying to smooth them out into one shared mood isn’t always the best idea… Leaders can no longer avoid taking an active role in architecting emotional landscapes — the collective composition of employee sentiments… By supporting emotional expression within their teams, leaders can help their…
Read More8 things that could derail innovation at your company—and how to avoid them
In this excerpt from [the book], “From Incremental to Exponential,” the authors spell out the “eight deadly sins of stasis” that can doom a company’s efforts to change… [The authors] call [their] observations the Eight Deadly Sins of Stasis. Individually, none of these sins will doom a company to oblivion in its efforts to innovate…
Read MoreCompensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to put them together effectively.
Read MoreData Alchemy Can Give Decision Making the Golden Touch
Some companies will shape the future after COVID-19. They’ll use machine learning to turn massive amounts of raw information into “golden” decision[s]… The practice of data alchemy is grounded in a new appreciation for what analytics can do, how to use it effectively, and—most importantly—how to embed it in day-to-day decision making.
Read MorePredicting Consumer Demand in an Unpredictable World
Predicting consumer demand for goods and services during the Covid-19 pandemic is more complicated than ever. To improve prediction, managers must abandon their biases and seek out new data sets for forecast models, tap local-market knowledge, combine the outputs of many different models, and continually test and refine them.
Read MoreThe journey to agile: How companies can become faster, more productive, and more responsive
Agile is, at its core, in its simplest, a set of team-based working practices… Agile operating models are characterized by rapid learning and decision-making cycles. Here’s how organizations can use agile practices to transform their organizations.
Read MoreHow Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities – Oxford Handbooks
How do strategic leaders create change-adept organizations? Based on qualitative field research, this chapter argues that well-defined institutionalized purpose, values, and principles act as an organizational guidance system that integrates and strengthens the micromechanisms which enable leaders to build dynamic capabilities and, therefore, change-adept organizations.
Read More10 Principles of Strategy through Execution
“We are all in the gutter,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “but some of us are looking at the stars.” That is the nature of strategy through execution. You operate deep in the weeds, managing countless day-to-day tasks and transactions. At the same time, you keep a steady gaze on your company’s long-term goals — and on ways you…
Read MoreHow Leaders Can Focus on the Big Picture
Every leader knows that they shouldn’t micromanage — even if some of us still do. But while we understand the downsides of micromanaging and taken action to avoid it, we still haven’t sufficiently embraced the upsides of not micromanaging… The main upside is that leaders have more time to spend on what we call macromanagement.
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