How Perfectionism Kills Excellence
Some people believe perfectionism is a positive trait. However, we have found that perfectionism kills excellence, harms relationships, compromises results in the long term, and generates frustration and disappointment.
Culture Change: Measuring the Gap Makes the Invisible, Visible
Culture can be as invisible as water in the sea, yet its immensely important role is ever-present. Using a clear and defined approach to defining the ideal culture, the current culture, the leadership styles and behaviors, and identifying gaps gives us a clear path forward and makes the invisible, visible.
Culture Change: For Culture to Change, Leaders Must Change
Leaders usually understand intellectually the logical connection between their behaviors and the resulting organizational culture. In our work at Axialent, we have never seen leaders rejecting their responsibility in that. What seems harder for leaders to envision from the beginning are the implications for their own personal transformation.
Next Steps: How to Achieve an Advanced Coaching Leadership Strategy
Moving from a Command & Control to an Advanced Coaching Leadership style is part of a business strategy that focuses on the decentralization of decision, control, and accountability by engaging and empowering employees. Doing this will lead to the transformation of your organizational culture. In a VUCA world, you can’t afford to wait half a decade to achieve such a culture shift.
The Benefits of an Advanced Coaching Leadership Strategy: An Interview with Thierry de Beyssac
More and more in today’s business world, we see the traditional “command and control” leadership style isn’t working. In this interview with Axialent consultant Thierry de Beyssac, he shares his thoughts about the need to embrace new strategies and skills in order to be successful leaders in today’s fast-changing environment and the benefits of an Advanced Coaching Leadership Strategy.
The Role of Scenario Planning 2.0 in Execution Excellence
Our world is changing faster than ever and with those changes, we need to learn to adapt quickly and intelligently. Scenario planning 2.0 is all about how fast we can read, listen, and integrate new information and adjust our plans quickly. But what exactly is the role of scenario planning 2.0 in execution excellence?
Survivor Syndrome: Planning for the Future in Crisis
People are still struggling with how to adjust to the changes happening in our world today, but we still need to find a way to reconnect with our future, vision, and possibilities. How can we create a future together when there is still so much uncertainty?
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Empathy and gratitude as a character-building workout
Whatever the lenses we choose to practice gratitude and empathy, they can be helpful to get some understanding of what others are living during this crisis. Realizing that can help put things in perspective – and it’s one of many ways in which we can individually do our work to avoid letting this crisis go to waste.
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Who do you want to become?
One of the most tangible aspects of a crisis like the one we are living is the material damage it causes: sickness, death, lost jobs, etc. There is, however, a less tangible but also very important dimension: the net balance a crisis has on our character as individuals, and the overall impact on society as a whole stemming from this.
A Courageous Culture Needs Courageous Executive Officers. CXO, You Got This!
Courage is a team sport. How will you help your organization become the kind of culture that is even more courageous, adaptive and agile?