by bw_admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” —Proverbs 4:23 Most CEO’s don’t realize this, but true leadership is a matter of the heart. You want the quick hack to motivate your people, but those tips and tricks won’t work...
by bw_admin | May 24, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
Work and Lead by Your Original Design We are all products of the culture we grow up in. In the Western world, and in America in particular, society brainwashes us to believe we’re only as valuable as what we produce or achieve, and the bar for both keeps getting...
by bw_admin | Apr 15, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
The capacity for your team to deliver on time, on budget, and without the requisite gnashing of teeth is one of the keys to next level performance in your organization. Unfortunately, this is a hard and often painful thing to accomplish; some might say it’s virtually...
by bw_admin | Apr 15, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
Recently, I was having a conversation with a client who is a CEO of a small life-science organization. He was telling me about his big problem: his executive team was not operating as it should —they were in the weeds of their departments, their performance was...
by bw_admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
One of the observations I consistently make when it comes to CEOs, Executive Leadership Teams and trust, is they get it wrong. Most of the time, they think of trust in a predictive sense; if you can come to know how a person will behave in a given situation, you can...
by bw_admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
If you’re a leader and you’re caught in the weeds of your business, it’s a tough place to be. Being “in the weeds” is an idiom often used in the restaurant industry to describe a server or chef who is hopelessly behind. It also means being concerned with small...
by bw_admin | Feb 12, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
You have a great team — they’re smart and have great intentions — but you took a hit in 2020 from covid, and you have audacious goals to meet for this year. You need your team to be performing at its peak, and quickly. The problem is, you’re now operating under a...
by bw_admin | Feb 9, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
“Be quick, but don’t hurry.” — John Wooden We operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world — nothing has proven that more considerably than the last year in the pandemic. When things are crumbling at a fast pace, it may feel like you can’t...
by bw_admin | Jan 27, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
If you’re a CEO or a senior leader in your organization, you might be frustrated by the amount of time you spend trying to get your team aligned. While you probably love being with your team to collaborate on plans, solve important problems and support one another,...
by bw_admin | Jan 26, 2021 | Business, Servant Leadership
You’ve put an unfathomable amount of time and energy into growing or turning around your business. That’s your job as CEO, to go from one problem to the next focusing on things like SOPs, delivery, R&D — the tangible things everyone is watching and measuring,...
