Don’t Let Executive Team Dynamics Derail your Year-End Business Planning

Executive team dynamics can get in the way of developing and executing next year's strategies. Here’s why—and how to identify the elephant in the room. A healthy executive team rationally looks at last year’s performance and devises a clear strategy that sets the business up for success. But when team dynamics cloud the picture, strategies and budgets wind up weak or incomplete. And team members don’t fully commit to the plans, objectives, and actions necessary for success. Sometimes, these issues stem from legitimate disagreements about the best path forward. Other times, executives lack the skills and ability to align, a [...]

2024-04-10T14:20:06-05:00By |CEO, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Executive Team, Getting Results, Managing Execution, Organizational Alignment, Strategy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Don’t Let Executive Team Dynamics Derail your Year-End Business Planning
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Excel at Execution to Achieve your Strategy

By Matthew Levy If your company is going to excel at managing better and more predictable results, it must excel at managing execution. Typical Performance Management is Inadequate Typical employee performance management is inadequate even if it includes some formal goal setting and annual performance reviews.  The problem is that these rarely inspire true commitment to goals that align with strategy or the predictable achievement of these goals in any manageable way.  It also doesn’t create a performance culture or give management the feedback it needs to properly assess performance, move projects forward, or create transparency. Mastery of Execution is Essential For [...]

2024-04-10T12:08:44-05:00By |CEO, Getting Results, Managing Execution, Organizational Alignment, Strategy|Comments Off on Excel at Execution to Achieve your Strategy
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Overcome the Six Hurdles to Effective Execution Management

The Problem: All people break promises some of the time and most companies are bad at execution management, accountability, and getting predictable results. The following are six barriers that are holding back your company.  Putting in place an effective system for managing execution will allow your company to overcome these hurdles. Six Hurdles to Effective Execution Management: #1 People often don’t keep their promises Keeping promises is the bedrock, heart and soul, glue, and foundation of successful and predictable execution. Do your leaders demand that people do what they promise or do they consistently tolerate excuses? In companies where people [...]

2024-04-10T12:14:05-05:00By |CEO, Getting Results, Managing Execution, Organizational Alignment, Strategy, Uncategorized|2 Comments
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Mining the Gems of Strategy in a Year-End Review

Problem: Most management teams fail to take advantage of the most strategic conversation available to them at year-end -- the one that unveils the hidden gems of learning that can have a profound impact both on next year’s strategy and on operational plans. What is the crucial conversation you ask? It’s the year-end review of the successes and failures of the past year. Having this discussion with the entire executive team present and doing it thoroughly ensures that the gems of strategy are mined, extracted, and polished to spectacular brilliance, ready to be applied immediately when the year begins. If [...]

2024-04-10T12:20:24-05:00By |CEO, Communication, Executive Team, Getting Results, Leadership, Managing Execution, Strategy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Mining the Gems of Strategy in a Year-End Review
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Manage Execution to Grow Like the Inc. 5000

by Matthew Levy Inc. magazine’s September 2013 issue features the 32nd annual list of the Inc. 5000 – a collection representing some of the finest companies in the country.  There’s no one industry they hail from, no single geography, and are spread across B2B and B2C – from business services to financial services to consumer products to healthcare to energy and more.  Their revenues range from 2 million to over 10 billion dollars. What do they have in common? Performance – 3-year growth rates of 34% to 43,000%.  How did they get there and what does it take to manage [...]

2024-04-10T12:52:33-05:00By |CEO, Executive Team, Getting Results, Managing Execution, Organizational Alignment|Comments Off on Manage Execution to Grow Like the Inc. 5000
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End Sabotage and Cure Organizational Schizophrenia

Executives frequently disagree with decisions that the executive team – or the CEO – have already made.  Sometimes, we even disagree with how a decision was made.  However, after a decision is made, we make a choice to either act in accordance with the decision or to act and speak consistently with what wish the decision was.  While we don’t often call it this, acting inconsistently with a decision that was made,  covertly or overtly and intentionally or unintentionally, is a toxic act of sabotage, negatively impacting the behaviors of others and diminishing the intended results. Furthermore, when we give [...]

2024-04-10T13:15:35-05:00By |CEO, Executive Team, Getting Results, Managing Execution, Organizational Alignment, Strategy, Uncategorized|2 Comments
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Don’t Miss Your Numbers, Call a Time-Out

Don't miss your numbers this year. Now is the time to get the company back on track before it's too late. Call a time-out and get the executive team offsite to assess the company's progress to date, resolve all the issues, and make plans to insure success for the year. Here is how...

2024-04-10T13:30:07-05:00By |CEO, Executive Team, Getting Results, Managing Execution, Organizational Alignment, Strategy|Comments Off on Don’t Miss Your Numbers, Call a Time-Out
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Getting Results: 5 Elements of Effective Strategy Execution

There are some critical elements of strategy execution that we can implement today by being more effective in our conversations with our colleagues. As we model these aspects of effectiveness, we will dramatically alter our results and the way work gets done. In the areas that you are not getting the business results you seek, which one or more of these 5 aspects are missing? 1. Relationships Relationships are the foundation of all accomplishments. If a relationship isn’t one of trust and support then it can’t handle straight open communication and results suffer. Do all your relationships support the results [...]

2024-04-10T14:32:27-05:00By |Communication, Culture, Executive Team, Family Business, Getting Results, Leadership, Managing Execution, Strategy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Getting Results: 5 Elements of Effective Strategy Execution
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Transforming Corporate Results: Five Critical Factors for CEO Success

CEO success depends on the ability to fulfill the ultimate responsibility: leading the company boldly into the future and inspiring and guiding people to achieve specific results. After years of consulting with and coaching executives from the likes of GE, Motorola, Chevron, BHP Billiton, and also many much smaller companies, I'm sure that transforming corporate results must be driven from the top -- and then supported throughout the company. CEOs that are able to align their executive team with a bold and compelling vision, empower it to begin the task of mobilizing the rest of the company. Senior executives frequently [...]

2024-04-10T14:29:53-05:00By |CEO, Executive Team, Leadership, Managing Execution, Organizational Alignment|Comments Off on Transforming Corporate Results: Five Critical Factors for CEO Success
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