Effective leadership changes always contribute to improved business results but are especially critical to venture capitalist and and angel investors who seek a high return of their investments within 3-5 years. They simply don’t have the time and depth of leadership talent in most early stage companies to recover from a new leader who doesn’t build effective [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
How Leaders Connect People With the Need to Change Part 4
A leader’s greatest blind spot may be relying on an over-developed strength when they enter a new role. That’s natural as it’s likely that that strength resulted in their selection. For example, I once worked with Jill (not her real name), at a leading financial services organization. She had a commanding knowledge of employee relations [...]
How Leaders Can Connect People to the Need for Change Part 3
I worked with a senior manager named Bill in the mid-80’s who thought that fanny patting demonstrated a positive climate of team spirit. Needless to say, eventually an employee filed a complaint. To say Bill was unrepentant at my our first meeting is like saying a pit bull can become mildly annoyed if provoked.
I began to quote [...]