System – Skills – Self
How elite sports practices can help us understand and improve
board-level executive performance.
How to stop doing your team’s work for them (and become a better leader as a result)
Much of our work as leadership coaches involves helping people adjust to the greater responsibility and scope of senior leadership roles. We often cite the well-known adage coined by Marshall Goldsmith: “what got you here won’t get you there”. One central and recurring issue on this theme is learning to delegate tasks that you could do but that are no longer your job to do. This is, of course, easier said than done.
How to harness the power of positive reinforcement
Most of us have heard of Pavlov and his dog but the wide reaching implications of this work and other behavioural experiments with our furry friends in the early 1900s are still not widely understood even though they govern much of our daily behaviour. “Operant Conditioning” can be a source of mental health and performance problems in today’s technology-enabled world but also a source of happiness and fulfilment if we harness its powers.
When should family businesses bring in external chief executives?
There is a well known saying, ‘Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations’ – meaning that family businesses often create and lose their wealth in three generations. Worldwide, only one in three family businesses successfully makes it to the next generation.
