Originally published May 5, 2014 on Harvard Business Review by Doug Sundheim Several years ago a client of mine, Rob, fell in love with Jim Collins’s book Good to Great. Within a month he had given copies to everyone on his team. Soon after, language from the book made its way into Rob’s everyday speech.…
Surveys of senior executives across the globe consistently point to strengthening leadership talent as a top priority for the success of their organizations. (AMA, 2009). They understand that a lack of leaders who are prepared to deal with an increasingly complex business world is a serious impediment to growth and even survival. Long gone are…
Originally published January 13, 2014 on Harvard Business Review by Doug Sundheim Anyone would be inspired by the story of Nick Woodman, the CEO of GoPro, a $2.5B company that makes wearable HD video cameras. The highlights: In the late 1990’s/early 2000’s, Woodman blows $4M of VC money on a failed venture called funBugs.com, an…
Originally published October 22, 2013 on Harvard Business Review by Doug Sundheim Last year Dina, a CEO I’d been working with, felt that leaders on her team were playing it too safe. They weren’t finding and pursuing new growth opportunities and it was crippling the organization. She kicked off her October management team meeting, which…
Reading the papers this morning, I found myself seething about what is going on in Washington. With such dire consequences on the line, how did we get to this place where grown adults can’t get into a room and iron something out? I wanted to jump on a train to Washington, go to the Capitol,…
Originally published August 22, 2013 on Harvard Business Review by Doug Sundheim Setting strategy is elegant. It’s a clean and sophisticated process of collecting and analyzing data, generating insights, and identifying smart paths forward. Done at arm’s length in an academic fashion, tight logic is the only glue needed to hold ideas together. The output…
Originally published August 15, 2013 on Harvard Business Review by Doug Sundheim Much of what comes out of people’s mouths in business these days is sugar-coated, couched, and polished. The messages are manufactured, trying to strike just the right tone. Genuine emotion stands in stark contrast. It’s a real person sharing a real feeling. When…
The following was originally posted on TanveerNaseer.com. When I talk to clients about effective goal setting someone invariably mentions that good goals are SMART goals – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. I agree these are critically important to strengthening goals. But they’re not the whole story. They don’t tell you how an individual…
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