Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Leadership and teaming skills are front and center in times of rapid change. Meet today’s constant disruption head on with expert guidance in leadership, business strategy, transformation, and innovation. Whether the disruption du jour is a digitally-driven upending of traditional business models, the pandemic-driven end to business as usual, or the change-driven challenge of staffing that meets your transformation plans — you’ll be prepared with cutting edge techniques and expert knowledge that enable strategic leadership.

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Most successful professionals have had one or more mentors during their career. They may not have realized these people were mentors, but they were being mentored nonetheless. They were being given guidance on important career decisions. They were taught how to handle new and perplexing problems, from tricks to debugging a deadlock to understanding how to terminate an employee. I can't possibly enumerate all of the help and guidance I've received from my mentors.

A project manager was working on assigning resources to an important project with a compressed schedule and, as is often the case, there were not enough available people with the required skills and experience. As she and I talked about various strategies to deal with the situation, I noticed two available people had not been considered, and I asked why.