by Andrew Bass | "How To's", Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Culture, Leadership
Here’s a riddle: What’s your biggest asset, AND your biggest potential liability, yet doesn’t appear on your balance sheet? Not exactly the Riddle of the Sphinx is it? The answer is, of course, your people. Here are some of my observations, based on all the...
by Andrew Bass | Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Articles, Change-&-Persistence, Culture, Leadership, Rationally Fearless
Imagine the scene. It’s the early hours of the morning. A young engineer lies awake, unable to sleep because of the excitement. After what seems like an hour of trying to find a comfy position to nod off, he checks the clock. Just fifteen minutes have elapsed since...
by Andrew Bass | Articles, Leadership
It will take a couple of minutes to read this, and a few more to make the lists. Any one of the items you come up with could make a dramatic difference to your next 90 days, and beyond. I’m going to suggest you make four lists, and think about them in a particular...
by Andrew Bass | Articles, Change, Leadership, Rationally Fearless
Anyone can get caught in a bubble – it happens without you realising it. And even if you notice, it can be hard to escape.I remember one CEO telling me that his big worry was isolation. Not emotional isolation, but isolation from real information. He felt stuck...
by Andrew Bass | Blog, Culture, Innovation, Leadership
Fear is a bigger factor in organizational life than we like to admit, and it works against many of the best-practices that are espoused by leaders and their gurus. Reduce fear, and a lot of good things can happen. To start with, I’ve found that senior people often...
by Andrew Bass | "How To's", Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Leadership, Tools
I’m not sure of the original attribution of the accompanying visual – I think Jack Welch talked about the principle in a video I saw once. It speaks to an issue that I see too often: organizations have nice posters around the place proclaiming their values, but...
