One of my clients is planning to spend time thinking about her plans and creating a forecast for next year, and she asked me if there were any questions she should think through to prepare for that exercise. Here’s what I sent her: But I know you are all a lot of smart business leaders,…
In human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is a constant. If leadership performance is high, the average will go up. The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise one leader’s performance than to raise the performance of a whole mass. ~ Peter Drucker in The Effective Executive Leaders I…
The #1 addiction on the planet is the addiction to being in control. ~ Dr. Mary Hulnick Thanksgiving is a big holiday for us here at Anchor Advisors. We’ve always sent out Thanksgiving cards instead of Christmas or New Year’s cards, partly because we wanted to stand out from the end-of-year rush and also because…
The effective executive knows that to get strength, one has to put up with weaknesses. ~ Peter Drucker in The Effective Executive Kicking off an assignment with a new client, I casually ask, “Tell me about your team…” What comes back is a string of complaints. “They rarely come to a meeting prepared; I don’t…
When we are trying something new, whether we are attempting to grow our business or make new friends, when we push out of our comfort zone, there will be times when it goes horribly wrong. And when that happens, it feels terrible. When it happens to me, I wonder why I’m putting myself through this….
The quality of our lives is directly proportional to the quality of questions we ask ourselves on a consistent basis. If you ask better questions, you will have better focus and better results… ~ Rich Diviney Early in my career, I had a job where I traveled a lot. My office was in Chicago, our…
“I wanted to ask, ‘Why did you let this happen?’ but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for you to ask.” ~ Nnedi Okorafor, Binti As I have worked to grow my own leadership, one superpower is self-awareness. If I can see myself the way others see me and become more…
We have two products, one we sell to our customers (HubSpot’s CRM) and one we sell to our employees (HubSpot’s culture). Like your product, you need your culture to be unique relative to the competition (for talent) and you want your culture to be very valuable. Like your product, when it is unique and valuable,…
AI is the next great thing! AI is ruining the world! Yes, there are a lot of overreactions to AI going around, and I’m consciously trying not to add to that noise. Instead, I thought I’d give you a quick overview of some instances in which I’ve found AI useful and some insights into where…
One of the great privileges of my role is that I am invited to listen to 10 – 12 clients every week. During the hour or so I spend with them, my whole job is to listen. In the process of doing that, I’ve discovered something amazing. When I give someone my full attention, their…