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Do You Delegate Tasks or Responsibility?
There is a natural challenge between delegating tasks and delegating responsibility. The best leaders have learned to empower their team members by delegating ownership rather than tasks. This article explore the differences between delegating task and responsibilities
The Riptide Effect: A Sales Shift from Geographic Alignment to Vertical Alignment
A riptide is a dangerous condition that can suck a swimmer or a surfer out to sea. Rather than fighting the current, one must swim or paddle with it. This approach that we refer to as the riptide effect is an effective metaphor for driving organizational change. In this post, we discuss how technology and the pandemic have created a riptide in the way organizations needs to approach sales.
The Great Resignation is the Ideal Time To Forwardfill Roles in your Organization
With the great resignation challenging businesses, now is the ideal time to forwardfill open roles in your organization.
Vinyl, Tapes, CDs, iTunes and Spotify highlight the Generational Shift to a SaaS Model
Music purchasing is a great analogy for the shift to a SaaS world. This highlights the generational differences in how software is approached.
2021 Groove Management Techie Gift Guide
2021 Groove Management Techie Gift Guide. Our annual curated list of cool gift ideas for the tech lovers in your life.
Why There is No Such Thing as Micro-Leadership
We have all heard of micro-management, but the term micro-leadership doesn’t exist. Why is there so much confusion between leadership and management?
Do you refer to your work team as a Family?
Do you refer to your work team as a family? What are the pros and cons of doing so? How do scaling organizations maintain a soul? These are some of the questions explored in this blogpost.
Jeff Van Gundy Talks Leadership
ESPN Commentator and NBA head coach Jeff Van Gundy shares his thoughts on leadership.
C Players in the C-Suite
Is your company’s C-suite filled with top talent or is your organization held back by mediocre talent at the top? Why does this happen and how can companies break the cycle?
There Are No Trading Deadlines in Business
Sports teams create advantage through constant personnel moves. Business teams tend to play multiple seasons with the same team. Are there lessons to be learned from the sports model?
Is Your Organization A Negatively or Positively Charged Talent Magnet?
Understanding why people quit jobs is critical to building a positively charged talent magnet for your organization. Managers who invest in their people and understand the drivers of engagement attract rather than repel talent. How do your managers stack up? We offer some tactics to drive positive talent magnetism.
Embrace your Kryptonite
We all have weaknesses, but few of us are open to admitting what they are. Referring to weaknesses as our Kryptonite changes the dialogue to a more approachable subject and makes weaknesses more acceptable. After all even superman has his weakness.
2020 Groove Management Techie Gift Guide
2020 Groove Management Techie Gift Guide. Cool tech gifts for WFH, adventure and family fun.
November 11th at 11:11am with eleven seconds
There is a significance of 11/11 at 11:11am in my life. Here is the story of connection, friendship and this date.
DO YOU WEAR A MASK DAILY OR JUST FOR HALLOWEEN?
Do you wear a mask for physical or psychological safety? Authentic leadership is about being genuine in your actions. Halloween and the idea of donning a costume to be someone you are not brings to mind the concept of authentic leadership. While it is fun to dress up for Halloween and wear a mask, I wonder how many of us really get to be our authentic selves at work? Do you have to wear a mask to work each day to fit in with your corporate culture or can you be your true self?
Investing In Your Team Has The Best ROI
An investment in the team provides the greatest ROI for a small investment. Choosing how to spend limited resources to create the greatest leverage is the job of every business leader.
5 Prime Day Deals Not To Miss
Here are 5 Amazon Prime day deals that you won’t want to miss out on. Cool products at great prices.
How to Turn Threats Into Opportunities
Learn how one team turned an IT outage into an amazing growth opportunity. Most teams are quick to accept threats for what they are, in this case the team turned the threat on its head and created an amazing opportunity. Learn how your organization can reframe threats as opportunities from this story.
Balance is an Underappreciated Competency
Subconsciously we spend a lot of time and energy working on our mental balance. Balance is an underappreciated competency that can help bring greater happiness and calm to ones life.