by Liane Davey | Sep 8, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Conflict, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
I am an optimist. Actually, I’m even further out the continuum—I’m a dreamer, a believer, a blue skyer. Teams benefit from a healthy dose of optimism, but let’s face it, optimism can be vacuous. What a great team needs is a few skeptics. You just have to be careful...
by Liane Davey | Jul 14, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
We don’t speed enough time envisioning If I could make one word more of a mantra for leadership teams, that word would be “envision.” I define envision as to paint a picture of something that doesn’t yet exist—to imagine or foresee. When your leadership team...
by Liane Davey | Jan 27, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
I was working with a CEO and his team last week. They’re a great team with incredible accomplishments under their belt. Of course, they are the kind of team that is never satisfied and always looking for the next opportunity to add more value for customers, be more...
by Liane Davey | Jan 20, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
I hear clients talking about “failing” all the time. The only problem is that whether they’re telling you that failing is a good or a terrible thing depends who you’re talking to. On the one hand, leaders are trumpeting the need to fail fast, while on the other,...
by Liane Davey | Feb 25, 2018 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Headline News, Horror Stories, Strategy & Planning
I read an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal this week entitled “How Jeffrey Immelt’s ‘Success Theater’ Masked the Rot at GE.” In it, authors Thomas Gryta, Joann Lublin, and David Benoit describe how the Immelt and his top leaders, “projected an optimism...
by Liane Davey | Feb 11, 2018 | About teams, Conflict, Horror Stories, Strategy & Planning
I’m deep into writing my new book and I’ve had an epiphany: Organizations are built to require conflict while employees are built to avoid it. I see this impact of this problem every day, but it took me 20 years to name it. Now it’s so clear. We have set up a...
