Archive - Notes on Leading

What The Best CEOs Do Better Than The Rest

They move past clichéd, oversimplified conceptualizations of leadership to understand what it really takes to get the best from an organization.

May 7 •

7 Reasons Executive Offsites Flounder And Fail

There's no formulaic way to run a successful executive team offsite. The best offsites are collaboratively conceived, flexibly designed, and dynamically…

May 7 •

March 2025

How Boards Get The Best From CEOs And Vice Versa

A strong board and CEO relationship doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and energy using every interaction to strengthen trust and increase clarity…

Mar 10 •

January 2025

The False Promise Of Best Practices

Adopting best practices without doing the hard work of developing your own is a sure path to mediocrity.

Jan 21 •

November 2024

Leaving Letting go Or losing But not yet Landed. Grasping at branches That no longer hold Uncertainty envelopes Identity wobbles.

Nov 25, 2024 •

3 Ways Top Teams Make (Or Break) Transformations

Transformations don’t fail. Top teams fail to deliver transformation.

Nov 7, 2024 •

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August 2024

The Art Of Building A Stellar Team

Building a stellar team is one of the toughest things to do in business.

Aug 29, 2024 •

April 2024

The Incredible Patagonia Backstory

Last year, after reading my writing on responsible leadership, Patagonia executives reached out to ask if I’d look at Yvon Chouinard’s new book, The…

Apr 18, 2024 •

12 Essential Elements of Strong Senior Teams

Strong senior leadership teams (SLTs) are the heart of successful organizations. In competitive and fast-paced environments they collectively sense the…

Apr 10, 2024 •

The third thing

The first thing shakes you The mistake The failure The injustice The loss The second thing sits with you The regret The defeat The anger The despair I'm…

Apr 4, 2024 •

April 2023

What Great Leaders Do That Good Leaders Don't

One mindset separates great leaders from good ones. You won’t find it in leadership assessments. It’s never articulated in job descriptions. And it…

Apr 13, 2023 •

March 2023

This moment. Oh, how often missed While lost in the past or future. Wrestling with if-only’s, when’s, and then’s. A trick of the mind In a modern world…

Mar 28, 2023 •

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