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by Andrew Bass | Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Blog, Change, Leadership
Imagine that you’re sharing a house with a friend or partner. You’re both good people, but sharing a living space can be tricky. You don’t know each other’s habits and preferences, and it’s easy get in each other’s way. One Read More
by Andrew Bass | Blog, Leadership, Self-created Problems
Chief Executives are usually – understandably and appropriately – concerned with the legacy they leave when they retire. They want the storyboard, the narrative arc of their tenure, to have a beginning and a middle working up to a strong ending, which sees them leaving Read More
by Andrew Bass | Blog, From Strategy to Action, Leadership
There’s big difference between stated priorities and actual priorities. If you want to know what the stated priorities are, look at what people say in their PowerPoint presentations. But if you want to know if it’s a real priority, you Read More
by Andrew Bass | Blog, Culture, Leadership
In his classic book On the Psychology of Military Incompetence (recommended reading for anyone interested in high-stakes organizational cock-ups and leadership hubris) Norman Dixon discusses the difficulties of recruiting talented people to military careers in peace-time: “Needless to say, a perceived decline Read More
by Andrew Bass | Blog, Strategy, Value Building
Most leaders I meet say that they want these same things from their organizations: increased pace and urgency people taking ownership and accountability increased collaboration Sounds great, but in reality their are many things that make this difficult: slow hierarchical Read More
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