Too many team leaders settle for a foggy, uninspiring ill-defined purpose. They incorrectly assume that if the purpose is clear and important to them, it must appear that way to their team members as well. More often than not, this assumption is wrong. Tasks and Teams Many organizations seem confused about the difference between teamwork […]
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Our Thoughts About Planning
Too many management teams suffer through hours of wasted time and energy working step-by-step through sterile, inflexible, and often poorly designed planning processes. They have experienced the frustration of building a plan only to see it immediately laid aside the following day as the organization pursues business as usual. Over time, it is seen about […]
Mapping a Clear Organization Direction
Truly great organizations are crystal clear about where they are going, why they are going there, how they will make the journey, and the rules of the road. The idea of a journey is a good metaphor for the grand task of establishing the destination (and, by definition, direction) and mapping the strategy needed to […]
Questions Every Leader Should be Asking About Talent
Successful organizations have a leadership development strategy. Leaders must be able to answer several foundational, defining questions about their organization’s talent development. At Triaxia, we find that the discipline of asking these questions is an important starting point for developing a more effective strategy for leadership development. Leaders need to look for answers to the […]
Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Be Asking
Strategic planning involves asking a series of important questions, collecting the right data needed to answer them and making tough choices among good alternatives. This paper addresses the questions typically asked over the course of strategic planning. The list is not exhaustive. Every company has a number of questions unique to it as an organization […]
The Changing Nature of Leadership Development
In the 1960s and 70s the development of executive leadership was a fairly straight-forward process that took place in a relatively stable and less complex environment than we have today. Today we live in a much different world. New global and cultural realities have rendered traditional approaches to leadership development nearly obsolete. Today’s world of […]
Questions Every Leader Should be Asking About His or Her Organization
Every organization is perfectly designed to get the results it is getting. Most organizations, no matter how effective, believe that they are leaving something on the table in the way of results. One common reason is the lack of fit between organizational design and strategy. One critical area of focus for every company is how […]
Too Much Team – Too Little Thinking
Avoiding the Tendency to Go Along to Get Along For the most part, group cohesiveness is a desirable team attribute, but too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Sometimes groups can develop such high levels of cohesiveness that the desire for uniformity and unanimity becomes stronger than the need for the […]