Are you on the right side of change?
I laughed a little, and shuddered a lot, as I watched a powerful new television ad campaign created by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA). Entitled “Record Label,” the ad recreates a fictional meeting in the office of the president of a record label back in the 1990s. He is lamenting the fact that his company […]
How high are you setting the leadership bar?
One of the things I’ve come to learn about leadership is fairly simple: as humans we expect more from leaders; we expect them to live up to a higher standard of behavior. This is an idea that I’ve validated in hundreds and hundreds of discussions with people around the world. As a result, it’s important […]
Do you relish in the success of others?
This past year has been another year of fascinating experiences with clients, business leaders and colleagues from around the world. What better way to finish it off than one last grand trip—this time to the United Kingdom. On the first day, my colleagues in Ireland organized a great event in Dublin with our key customers. […]
Can you evolve how you lead?
It was a question I had never been asked before. “Vince, how much experience have you had working with leaders in a post-communist environment?” Now, I’ve been all over the world and worked with leaders and organizations on almost every continent. But I could not dispute the fact that I had never before worked with […]
Are you a single point of failure?
You never know where you’re going to find a leadership lesson. Recently, I worked with a supplier that my team has used for years. Ron runs the company and it’s a successful business. I had a job for Ron and his team. Nothing too complex, but it had a tight timeline so that I could meet […]
What kind of leadership culture would you need to be at your best?
Whenever I work with senior leaders, there is one question I always ask them. What kind of culture would you need to be at your best and make your fullest contribution as a leader? There are four main answers I typically get: “I will be at my best in a climate where leaders have real […]
Are you a truly accountable leader?
Everybody nowadays is looking for more accountability from leaders. This has become so apparent to me as I’ve travelled around the world talking to leaders. I find the mantra of leadership accountability is especially evident in new CEOs. As they come into the new company, they typically do so with an ambitious agenda from the […]
Are you truly committed to do what is necessary when transforming your company?
It was time for Jonathan, the former COO of a large retailer, to reflect on what went wrong. Jonathan had been brought in to lead a broad transformation initiative. Change was the order of the day, largely because of an array of disruptive challenges in their sector. Bricks and mortar stores were falling like leaves in […]
Are you protecting a poor performer?
If there is anything that I’ve learned in my own career, it is that organizations cannot succeed without adhering to one fundamental principle – we can only achieve high performance when employees and leaders commit to being their best, in everything that they do. And it’s not just me. This principle was top-of-mind for senior […]
Are you an intergenerational leader?
It’s safe to say that hardly anyone saw this coming. A few weeks ago, data guru Josh Bersin posted on LinkedIn some interesting labour market statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The data showed that the fastest growing employee cohort in the United States is those over seventy years of age. This is largely […]
