How well are you travelling? That’s a question I love to ask teams when starting to work with them, as it is the beginnings of getting them thinking about their agility as an organization. I usually get answers somewhere in the mix of “not too bad”. Then I ask them, “how do you know?” to which I get answers about metrics and surveys and similar things.
Accountability has always been tough but is getting tougher. As The Traffic of Dynamic Complexity has increased in our daily lives, we can feel overwhelmed and gridlocked. As a result, things don’t get done that needed to get done, which anybody could have done (Anybody, Anybody?).
Some things are so elegantly simple (Simplicity & Complexity), they are almost embarrassingly so, which is why most people don’t do them. As a result, they can often be left unnecessarily struggling with the complexity of things and wondering why things aren’t changing.
Like it or not, the portfolio of meetings you run is the gearbox of your business. Meetings are the collective mecahnism via which everything else meshes together, with the frequency and quality of communication, collaboration and coordination you need as a team for organizational agility.
Execution Excellence: Missing-in-Action“We hear a lot about execution these days, which is encouraging. But strategy and execution are only as good as the traction they create and sustain, on a higher road of a breakthrough journey."
Mike's Own Journey“As an executive and then CEO of small-to-medium sized and fast-moving businesses, I experienced an ever increasing sense-of-void. As the pace of business and change accelerated, my experience of most coaches, consultants and trainers coming into my office offering to help was that they didn’t really understand the nature of the seat I sat in everyday..." read more...
See Mike giving one of his keynote speeches, Breaking Through to a New Future .