Category: Transforming Leaders
Value Transformed is now Better Outcomes Today
Hello clients and friends. It's time to re-imagine, pivot, and evolve. Value Transformed is being "transformed" into something new... Better Outcomes Today where we focus on creating better outcomes, better leaders, and better organizations. Please head over to BetterOutcomesToday.com for all future business needs.
Accelerate OKRs – Delegate OKRs both Up and Down
"Shoot for the sun and you will reach the moon..." a common narrative senior executives use when cascading aggressive targets downstream to their leaders and team. Using stretch targets is indeed a great way to shake from stagnation... but only if the level of inspiration matches the aspiration. Unfortunately, ambitious targets are too often NOT ...
Transformations Explained in 5 Acts
Organizational Transformation explained in 5 Acts: 1 True Approach: Iterative, Non-Invasive, Sustainable, Empowered, Self-Improving Transformation 2 Pre-Conditions: Clear Business-Driven Outcomes & Capable Progressive Leaders (ideally aligned) 3 Common Paths: A Evolve the Product (drive: revenue), Evolve the Approach (driver: productivity), Evolve the Tool / Tech (driver: expenses) 4 Cyclical Stages: 1 Beautiful Bold Vision, 2 ...
The Impossible Choice
Should businesses invest in employee wellness and recovery, even at the cost of stakeholder returns? This choice is especially difficult for organizations that are suffering from employee burnout and high turnover, yet have suffered significant revenue declines and are barely surviving. Most of the time, the answer I hear is "No, companies are not responsible ...
Accelerate OKRs – Courage & Confidence within Ambiguity
Adopting OKRs can sometimes begin with premature sense of clarity. After all, what's more natural to leaders than to boldly shape a new vision of change? And if it just a format or a process the leader is looking to adopt, the perceived ambiguity is minimal. Yet too often these youthful naive expectations meet the ...
Accelerate OKRs – Go Slow to Go Fast
OKRs may seem easy. After reading the famous John Doerr book "Measure What Matters", many leaders think the adoption is 70% format / 20% application & alignment / 10% mindset change. Reality is often quite the opposite: 10% format / 30% application & alignment / 60% mindset change. This is precisely why adopting OKRs takes ...
Leader’s Hope Deferred
Are you losing hope? Behind all the positive platitudes, all your strategies, all your plans, and all your presentations… are you losing hope? Not just hope in your organization. Not just hope in achieving your targets. Not just hope in your leadership. I mean your personal hope. Are you losing hope in yourself? And before you ...
Leading a Burned-Out Workforce
Let’s get straight to it, leaders. New research from HBR, Gallup, and others is revealing that about half of us are in denial and telling ourselves lies. We have been distancing ourselves from the real problem… often to protect ourselves, our leadership gaps, and frankly our organizational pressures. What are those lies? (1) We can ...
Should You Abandon a Failing Transformation?
Have you ever made an investment into something, and later realized it’s a LOT more complicated than you ever expected it to be – perhaps a large home renovation or starting a business – and ultimately faced a difficult choice to either (A) exit & cut your losses or (B) minimize your investment when you ...
Evolving the profit and people business equation
On December 1, 2021 in the thick fog of COVID pandemic uncertainty with most countries announcing quarantine restrictions ahead of the Christmas holiday season, Simon Sinek tweeted one of his famous timely quotes "Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. Purpose is the reason we do the thing that makes the profit." About a month ...
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