by Ted Harro | Nov 28, 2017 | Influence, Leadership Tests, Top Teams
If you’re a leader, you’re going to spend the vast majority of your days in meetings. Leaders spend most of their time with others wrestling with tough issues that couldn’t be solved elsewhere and creating a future that no one person could achieve alone. So, quick:...
by Ted Harro | Oct 17, 2017 | Dirty Words, Leadership Tests, Top Teams
Karen sits in her office, slightly baffled. She’s in the middle of a major change initiative designed to dramatically improve her company’s cost structure. All along, she has been out in front of this initiative, explaining it, selling it, cheering for it. She made...
by Ted Harro | Sep 18, 2017 | Creating the Future, Dirty Words, Leadership Tests, Top Teams
Ben has a problem. He just took over the leadership of a company that until recently had been on a bad losing streak. Two years ago, the board brought in a turnaround artist who used a combination of hard work and brute force to arrest the decline. As a result, a...
by Ted Harro | Sep 22, 2015 | Dirty Words, Laboratory for the Soul, Top Teams
You’ve probably been in a meeting where someone floats an idea that’s imperfect, maybe even half- baked. They do it tentatively because they know the thought is emerging like a calf out of the womb, wobbly and likely to crash land onto the floor of the barn. It rests...