Leading By Example

What we, as leaders, do every day, how we behave, the things we get involved in, how we set priorities—our people watch, observe, and emulate. What we do always trumps what we say.
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80/20 Management

As managers, we are expected to lead, manage, and coach all our people—not just some of them. Our job is to maximize the performance of each person in our organization. So we have to pay attention to everyone, again making sure each is performing as best possible, meeting our performance expectations.
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Shooting from the Lip

Customers don’t want a knee jerk reaction. They don’t want the rehearsed response. They want to invest their time with people who are prepared, who are ready to engage in high impact conversations about their businesses.
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Everything Begins with Principles

Instead of talking about principles, we spend a lot of time talking about rules: “Do this, do it this way, don’t do that.” When our rules don’t cover everything, we’re lost. We don’t know what to do. Generally, the reaction is to create more rules.
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Insight Is Not the End—It’s the Beginning

Insight is the starting point. Our Insights should create a dialogue or conversation. It should begin a collaborative process, where we and the customer evaluate what it means for them. If our Insight doesn’t start a conversation, we have failed. If we can’t sustain the conversation, we have failed.
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Experiencing What Our Customers Experience

Too often, there’s a huge disconnect between our organizations and our customers. Our customers and prospects are frustrated with us and we don’t understand the frustration.They don’t get it, we don’t get it, there is a giant disconnect.
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Turning Your Value Prop Upside Down

We’re all proud of our value propositions! We feature them in our web sites, we’re trained to brag about them to our customers. Usually, when I hear people describe their company’s value proposition, the focus seems to be all about the company or the product.
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