Reading time: about 3 minutes. The start of this year has been difficult for everyone. Covid-19 has cut a trail of death and financial hardship that could continue for months to come. By now many organizations have triaged their businesses. With expenses to pay and a loss...
Reading time: about 3 minutes. In this blog, I’d like to think about what the coronavirus can teach us about strategy. As I write this the virus is working its way around the world. The US has banned travel from most of Europe. All non-essential travel to...
Reading time: about 2.5 minutes. How does mindset figure into the launch of new products? In this blog, I’m assuming we know go to market (GTM) strategies that align sales, ops, and development; that create value propositions focused on the customer. That we know about value chains,...
Reading time: about 2.5 minutes. Building a leadership team is an opportunity for the leader who assembles the team and the company that team will lead. In this blog, I’d like to explore two situations where a leadership team is built; the pros and cons of each;...
Reading time: about 2 minutes. One question we hear often at Innate Leaders is around mindset and recruiting. How do you recruit people with the right mindset? It’s that question that is the focus of this week’s blog. Mindset in the Workplace Before we get to that, let’s...
Reading time: about 2.5 minutes. In my book, The Six Attributes of a Leadership Mindset, I talk about three different leadership worldviews: task, teach, and create. Each worldview has its focus. Task sees the job of a leader as ensuring the job gets done. A teach...
Reading time: about 3 minutes. “This might not be a sexy title,” a client said to me last week, "but ‘Navigating Industry Regulations’ might be a good topic for one of those blogs of yours.” And while it’s true that thinking about regulations is a boat, plane,...
Reading time: 3.5 minutes. Have you ever heard of Johannes Väänänen? In part, this blog is about why your answer to that question might be "no". You see, while Steve Jobs and Apple go down in the annuals of history as the inventor of the smart phone....
Reading time: about 2 minutes. There’s one phrase more than any other that has become a go to for describing challenges in businesses and teams. And since you’ve already read the title of this blog you know what I’m talking about: “we have a communication challenge”. When...
Reading time: about 2.5 minutes. If you’re a regular reader of this blog you know that I often make a distinction between training and mindset work. Maybe because of that I’m often asked if mindset training is possible. So today, I’d like to make mindset training...