by Bill Bliss | Jun 25, 2014 | Bill's Blog, Leadership, Teams
In his book The Advantage Patrick Lencioni has written about the importance of having a cohesive leadership team. He says the next competitive advantage for organizations is having a leadership team that is cohesive as measured by 5 critical elements. ...
by Bill Bliss | Jun 4, 2014 | Bill's Blog, Coaching, Teams
The evidence is clear – the most successful leaders have a laser-like focus on a few major goals and resist the tendency to have many goals they are trying to advance. As Jim Collins has said, “Good is the enemy of great” meaning that as talented leaders, we can do a...
by Bill Bliss | May 28, 2014 | Bill's Blog, Coaching, Teams
“No good leader puts off to tomorrow what they can delegate today” are the wise words of Peter Drucker. Many of the leaders I work with have a difficult time delegating. As a matter of fact, there has only been one executive in my career who was known to be the...
by Bill Bliss | Jul 11, 2012 | Bill's Blog, Leadership, Teams
As we continue to explore Organizational Health as a means to separate your organization from your competition, it is important to understand the significance of a cohesive leadership team. Even the phrase “leadership team” seems well overused today when we see little...
by Bill Bliss | Jul 5, 2012 | Bill's Blog, Leadership, Teams
According to Patrick Lencioni, “it is impossible to sustain a competitive advantage [solely] based on intellectual ideas.” This age of technology and virtually instant access to all kinds of information has rendered disciplines like Strategy, Technology, Finance, and...
by Bill Bliss | Jun 20, 2012 | Bill's Blog, Leadership, Teams
In a recent article by one of my favorite authors, Patrick Lencioni (author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage among others), he was connecting a question asked on a reality television show to organizational health. Stay with me here, it is worth...
