Leadership Xpressions
Why CEO’s Fail

Why CEO’s Fail

This book, by David Dotlich and Peter Cairo, highlights some specific leadership failures: The vast majority of leaders do not receive adequate feedback to help them understand their own ...

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Skip Level Succession

Skip Level Succession

Cisco recently transitioned their CEO role after a long successful career by John Chambers. He was a leader who had a list of employees’ medical issues on his desk every day so that he could ...

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Constraining Beliefs

Constraining Beliefs

20+ years ago, less than 3% of the world’s population had mobile phones and less than 1% were on the Internet. If we limited ourselves to those numbers, we would have missed out on the market ...

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Employee Purpose

Employee Purpose

Employees are seeking deeper purpose from their employment, as they want to feel part of something bigger…a company that goes above and beyond. This is usually not the same for the shareholders ...

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You Can’t Manage a Secret

You Can’t Manage a Secret

In 2007, Ford CEO Alan Mulally was dealing with a huge corporate mess. However, all the scorecards were “green.” There was obviously an issue with transparency, and Mulally did not have truth ...

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Dream Leader

Dream Leader

Employees often create an “ideal image” of what a leader seems to be. When looking at an organization’s leader, employees tend to judge the book by its cover, because that is easier to digest ...

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How LEGO Innovated for Sustainability

How LEGO Innovated for Sustainability

Danish toy company, LEGO, was founded by woodworker Ole Kirk Christiansen originally as a wooden toy making company. He started during the Great Depression and his four sons joined him at work. ...

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Operating Model

Operating Model

To create a consistently strong, value-creating revenue growth – there has to be a good organizational execution in operations. In today’s business environment, there are significant changes to ...

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Digital Learning

Digital Learning

Regis Chasse, a friend at Cap Gemini’s learning, has researched and written about digital learning. Three key takeaways are digital learning, business games and online communities: Employees are ...

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Global Innovation

Global Innovation

Developing countries’ companies are becoming global innovation leaders. The leader is Alibaba in China, with a market value greater than Yahoo, Netflix, eBay, Yelp, LinkedIn, Twitter and Groupon ...

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