Ideas I keep coming back to.
Essays on leadership, organizational maturity, and why lasting change only ever comes from the inside out. Written over years of practice; still true.
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Great Organizations Are Built Inside Out
Can't move the needle on performance? Here's a counter-intuitive suggestion: stop pushing. Organizations are living things — and they grow up the way children do.
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Why Startup CEOs Fail to Become Growth CEOs
The skills that start a company are not the skills that scale one. Ten reasons the jump from Startup CEO to Growth CEO fails — and the self-examination that makes it.
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The Lumberjack Competition
Two logging companies, ten people each, one week. The team that surrendered a chopper to sharpen axes never lost again.
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Who Is the New CEO?
Vineet Nayar called for chief executives to become chief enabling officers. On the quiet shift of value from the boardroom to the front line.