FROM GREG’S DESK
Because your real job is change.
Supporting Leaders in Hard Times
Leader burn-out? the mounting necessity of ongoing support to leaders--to all leaders in this seemingly never ending, shared and yet often quite personal hard time. Best practices? Signs of fatigue to the point of fatigue? look at this new article of mine The article concerns those at the pinnacle of the organization (CEO, senior executive team, and the Board), but the counsel applies far more broadly.
Covid Lessons
The lessons fit the approach to change advocated in the newly revised edition of my book with Cassie Solomon Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work.
2020 One Good Thing
A significantly good and actually very generally relevant MLB action closed out 2020. Its history has clear implications for organizational leaders concerned about positively impacting diversity, equity, and inclusion today.
Personal Change Leadership in 2021 and the 130th Anniversary of Wounded Knee
On December 29, 1890, the US 7th cavalry moved upon an encampment of Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota with the formal intention of disarming them.
Innovation, change, Musk and me
As with so much of leadership, it’s a question of balance. No different with Elon Musk—tenacity and optimism balanced against feedback and ‘facts on the ground’ or creative abrasion as distinct from noisy, unproductive conflict. This article presents Elon Musk as Fortune’s business person of 2020 and quotes me on both of these topics.
Lessons for Hard Times: Personal and Professional
PODCAST: We never know what we’re training for. For me, it was cancer. We discuss my year of cancer treatment (2017) and its relevance to leadership topics such as change, surviving hard times, resilience, and mentoring.
ABOUT THE BLOG
Just another day at my Antarctic office.
When leaders and their organizations face challenges, there's a lot at stake… The “hard stuff” is often the “soft stuff”— like building and maintaining strong working relationships among leaders and their people. Challenging times place special demands on organizations and everyone in them. Through this blog, I will share insights and lessons from my research and field experience on the perspective, skills, and support you need to handle those demands.